How to keep the dew off your telescope lens may not be everyone’s idea of vital knowledge, but it’s one of the appealing hints dropped among a welter of useful information in Larousse’s Pocket Guide to Astronomy (£4.99, ISBN 0 7523 0008 3), edited by Michele Byam.
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