Fully revised and updated for 1997, Philip's Atlas of Stars and Planets has been specially designed to introduce children to the wonders of the night sky and stargazing. Packed with easy-to-use star maps, spectacular photographs - several of which are included for the first time in this 2nd Edition, with new images from the Hubble Space Telescope - and amazing facts and figures about the Universe and our Solar System.

 

There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Octopus Publishing Group .

? Ian Ridpath is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and lecturer on astronomy, having previously worked at the University of London Observatory. A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, he is the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy and Norton's Star Atlas, which is considered by many to be the amateur astronomer's bible. He has written or edited more than 40 books, including several standard guides to the night sky, and many articles on astronomy.