Customer comments on this selection.
 Evil yes, Genius no
This is an astonishingly horrible waste of paper. I love astronomy and I like some of the similar "Evil Genius" series. I appreciate the fact that this book was apparently written for the absolute beginner in mind. But it is dreadful. A typical "project" involves buying an expensive piece of equipment, and then simply being told to use it. (Eg Project 10.) Project 15, supposedly telling the reader how to launch a CCD camera on a model rocket, never even mentions how to install or activate the camera! Other "projects" simply restate the assembly instructions for a specific telescope or other piece of gear which already comes with instructions. Project 27 says, "Use a shortwave radio." Uh huh, for what, and what does it have to do with astronomy? Other projects show a few equations scribbled by hand, with the expectation the reader will figure out how to use them (and can read the poor handwriting.) I could almost think the whole book is a joke, it is so pathetic. This should be taken off the shelves.
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