From rookies to experts, The Backyard Astronomer’s Guide is the ideal tool kit for the astronomy enthusiast in your life.” — George Dvorsky for Gizmodo.com, December 2023 “How do you go from being a casual stargazer to an accomplished amateur astronomer? You buy …

From the U.K. Ruzen Farsad provides lots of tips and techniques for backyard deep sky astrophotography. Also check his blog.

Here is a chapter-by-chapter look inside the new Fourth Edition of The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, with previews of selected pages (several per chapter) in small slide shows. The book is available through all major sales outlets.

Ken Hewitt-White developed a passion for astronomy as a child and has been observing the night sky ever since. Following a 20-year career as a show producer at Vancouver’s MacMillan Planetarium, Ken turned to writing full time.

Some products are featured in The Backyard Astronomer's Guide in the chapters indicated. Others are of new products introduced since the book's last revision in 2024. Many of the reviews come from the website AstroGearToday (which shut down in 2023), or from our…

A website about the book The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, published in 2021 by Firefly Books. Authored by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer.

A website about the book The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, published in 2021 by Firefly Books. Authored by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer.

This is a 360° x 120° panorama of the northern autumn sky and Milky Way, taken from home December 6, 2020 from my latitude of 51° North. The Milky Way is arching directly overhead at left, with the summer Milky Way in Cygnus setting in the west at …

A website about the book The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, published in 2021 by Firefly Books. Authored by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer.

A website about the book The Backyard Astronomer's Guide, published in 2021 by Firefly Books. Authored by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer. Visit the post for more.