Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Night Sky
· Observing the Night Sky and the Celestial Sphere
· The Spring/Fall Sky (Northern Hemisphere/Southern Hemisphere)
· The Summer/Winter Sky
· The Fall/Spring Sky
· The Winter/Summer Sky
Chapter 2 - The Age Before Telescopes
· Ancient Greek Astronomer Anaxagoras and Angelo Secchi - the Sun
· Tycho Brahe - SN 1572
· Johannes Kepler - SN 1604
Chapter 3 - Telescopic Astronomy - Discoveries before cameras
· Thomas Henderson - Alpha Centauri (first to measure distance to a star)
· Friedrich Bessel and 61 Cygni (proper motion)
· Benedetto Castelli and J. B. Liebknecht - Mizar, Alcor and Sidus Ludoviciana in Big Dipper
· John Goodricke - Algol (Eclipsing Binary)
Chapter 4 - Coaxing Out the Detail - Spectroscopy Reveals Stellar Secrets
· Spectroscopy - How it works and what it tells us about stars
· The pioneering work of William Huggins, Henry Draper, et al.
· Edward Charles Pickering and Mizar
· Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet - WR Stars in Cygnus
· Angelo Secchi - Carbon Stars
Chapter 5 - Standard Candles - How Stars are Used to Determine Cosmic Distances
· The Distance Modulus and Standard Candles
· Edward Pigott, John Goodricke and Henrietta Swan - Cepheid variables
· E. C. Pickering, Jacobus Kapteyn and Williamina Fleming - RR Lyrae variable
· Subrahmahyan Chandrasekhar and Mark Phillips - Type 1a Supernovae
· Other Standard Candles
Chapter 6 - Star Names and Designations
· Origin of Named Stars
· Common Star Designations used for Charts/Planetarium Software
Chapter 7 - Introduction to Catalogues and Handbooks of Stars and Deep Sky Objects
Appendix
Glossary and comprehensive index.
