Moongazing: Beginner’S Guide to Exploring the Moon Paperback – January 1, 2020

As a dedicated Moon observer, I own dozens of books about the Moon. My impression of this book is that it is an excellent primer for beginners as well as a good guide for experienced recreational astronomers. It is a concise 96 pages with relevant information necessary for enjoying the Moon in all its glory. I particularly like the photos and illustrations the author chose for teaching you where to observe along with descriptions of what you will see through your telescope. All major and minor surface features are discussed including craters, mountains, dry lava beds, valleys and more. Tom Kerss is an excellent writer and every page appears artistically and aesthetically well designed. In summary, this is nice Moon book worthy of a spot in your home library. See my photos for an example of what’s inside.

I bought this book as a gift for my great granddaughter who dreams of becoming an astronomer. The book contains many wonderful photos of significant features on the moon's surface that can be viewed with a simple telescope.

I am new to astronomy and wanted a good starter book of the moon and craters. This book filled the bill. It was a good informative book. The info in this book was an easy read and has a very good illustraion of the moon and craters with names of them. I take it with me and use it while I learn the craters. For the newbe you cant go wrong, and I feel anyone can get good info. From this book.

I found this book to have a lot of great information and easy to read. The illustrations are of good quality and the layout of the book makes sense.

As a lifelong observer of the Moon I found this guide to be accurate, topical, well written and nicely illustrated. It is a challenge to provide good lunar maps and images in a small format book. The author and publisher did an excellent job. I was very impressed with the book’s Introduction and the easy to read lunar maps and accompanied images, which were all taken at the same angle of solar illumination. This little book could also serve as an introductory atlas to the Moon. It is also small enough to use at the telescope.There is extensive (for a book of this size) discussion of lunar photography using smart phone (digiscoping) and DSLR cameras with advice on image processing.All in all this is a fun read. Of the many books on astronomy published each year there are very few books about the Moon. I would have jumped over the Moon for a book like this when, as a grade schooler, I saw the Moon through my first telescope! I suggest you purchase a copy for yourself and one for a budding amateur astronomer, either young or old.