2024 Sky Guide Southern Africa by Astronomical Society of Southern Africa (Struik Nature, R170)
Whether you're hoping to find your way by the stars or simply entranced by a starry sky and longing to understand it better, this annual publication from the Astronomical Society will put you right. This is the 79th edition of the handbook but the society's editors keep squeezing in as much as possible into the 136 pages.
Selected areas of Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique and Namibia are now also included and you'll find intriguing titbits, such as Southern African names for full moons (mantis moon, dassie moon, whale moon and so on). The meat of the first half is the monthly star charts – about two pages a month telling you what to look for at what time of the day, night or month and
