The 50 best sights in astronomy and how to see them : observing eclipses, bright comets, meteor showers, and other celestial wonders / Fred Schaaf.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Basic information for astronomical observers
[pt. 1]. Field of view : 180° (the whole sky) to 100° (naked-eye scan)
Sight 1 : The starry sky
Sight 2 : Total eclipse of the Sun
Sight 3 : Meteor shower or storm
Sight 4 : Fireball meteor
Sight 5 : The Northern Lights, or Aurora
Sight 6 : Bright satellite or spacecraft
Sight 7 : The Milky Way
[pt. 2]. Field of view : 100° to 50° (the widest fixed naked-eye field)
Sight 8 : The Big Dipper and the North Star
sight 9 : The Orion group of constellations
Sight 10 : The Summer Triangle region
[pt. 3]. Field of view : 50° to 15° (moderately wide naked-eye field)
Sight 11 : Venus and Mercury at greatest elongation
Sight 12 : Venus, Jupiter, and Mars at brightest
Sight 13 : Bright comet with long tail
Sight 14 : Sirius, the brightest star
Sight 15 : Other bright stars
Sight 16 : Orion
Sight 17 : Other prominent constellations


[pt. 4]. Field of view : 15° to 1° (narrow naked-eye field, binoculars field, and wide-telescopic field)
Sight 18 : Total eclipse of the Moon
Sight 19 : Total eclipse of the Sun close-up
Sight 20 : The Moon at full and other phases
Sight 21 : Very thin crescent Moon
Sight 22 : Lunar conjunctions and occultations
Sight 23 : Planetary conjunctions
Sight 24 : Bright comet close-up
Sight 25 : The Hyades star cluster and Aldebaran
Sight 26 : The Pleiades
Sight 27 : Other very bright large open-star clusters
Sight 28 : Orion's Belt and Sword
Sight 29 : Algol, Mira, and other dramatic variable stars
Sight 30 : Novae, supernovae, and supernova remnants
Sight 31 : Starriest fields
Sight 32 : The Sagittarius Milky Way region
Sight 33 : The Great Andromeda galaxy
Sight 34 : The realm of the galaxies


[pt. 5]. Field of view : 1° to 0.1° or less (medium to narrow telescopic field)
Sight 35 : Overall telescopic views of the Moon
Sight 36 : Close-up views of lunar craters and other features of the Moon
Sight 37 : Sunspots and other solar features
Sight 38 : Partial eclipses of the Sun
Sight 39 : Transits of Mercury and Venus
Sight 40 : Venus near inferior conjunction
Sight 41 : Jupiter and its moons
Sight 42 : Saturn and its rings and moons
Sight 43 : Mars at closest in a telescope
Sight 44 : Uranus, Neptune,and other dim but important worlds
Sight 45 : A colorful or otherwise striking double star
Sight 46 : The Great Orion nebula
Sight 47 : A rich open cluster
Sight 48 : A bright globular cluster
Sight 49 : A bright planetary nebula
Sight 50 : A bright and structured galaxy
Appendix A : Total solar eclipses, 2008-2024
Appendix B : Major meteor showers
Appendix C : Total and partial lunar eclipses, 2007-2017
Appendix D : The brightest stars
Appendix E : Transits of Venus and Mercury
Glossary
Sources
Photo credits
Index.