A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope
An introductory amateur astronomy guide by Edgar Gardner Murphy, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York and London in 1912, written for beginners using opera-glasses, field-glasses and small telescopes. Halftone observatory photographs of star clusters, spiral nebulae and the cratered lunar surface sit alongside printed constellation charts with linked stars and graded magnitude dots.
