How to Identify: Night sky by Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion, Collins, £12.99, ISBN 0007103611 Reviewed by Mick O’Hare
THERE’S surely no argument that Storm Dunlop has the grooviest name of any astronomy author. And while that’s no reason in itself to ask for a copy of Night Sky, the latest in the Collins “How to Identify” series, as a Christmas present, when Dunlop’s concise celestial explanations are added to Wil Tirion’s famous maps of the heavens, you end up with a tightly presented handbook. On the subject of authors’ names, however, you’d have thought Collins could have spelt Wil Tirion’s correctly on the cover.…
