The Ultimate Guide to the Sky

The Ultimate Guide to the Sky
Justin Segal, cover design & interior layout

text by John Mosley, Program Supervisor for Griffith Observatory, L.A., California
illustrations by Carol Lyon
Lowell House Juvenile, publisher
© 1997

Look to the stars! Literally billions of stars fill the sky, and every one of them belongs to one of 88 constellations. With The Ultimate Guide to the Sky, you can learn all about the constellations, then find them in the sky above using easy-to-read star maps and a pull-out Rotating Star Finder.

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Book excerpt:

"The Zodiac"
The zodiac is a band of constellations that the sun travels through in its annual trip around the sky. As the Earth travels around the sun once a year, it looks like the sun travels around the sky. The sun travels through 13 constellations (not just the 12 most people think of), and these are the constellations of the zodiac.

The moon and planets also stay within this band most of the time. The constellations of the zodiac are well known because the sun, moon, and planets travel through them, but many of them are minor constellations that contain no bright stars.

Have you heard the song "The Age of Aquarius"? Well, the true Age of Aquarius will begin in about 600 years, when, for the first time, the sun will be in Aquarius on the first day of Spring.