For the beginning stargazer, just learning the phases of the moon or spotting the Big Dipper can transform a nightly dog walk into an experience and can soon have you eager to see even more. As the pages of this book show, there’s so much more: a dazzling gallery of constellations; eclipses, comets and meteor showers; and beyond that the deep-sky treasures of nebulae and galaxies. There’s the fierce brilliance of astronomy’s pioneers from whom to draw inspiration and the stunning images being sent back daily from the distant cosmos to surprise and delight. The adventure is there to be enjoyed: All you need to do is look up.