Night Sky Almanac 2025: A stargazer’s guide

With a beautiful cover, this is a gorgeously-illustrated hardback that fits into the hand (pretty much a regular-size book). Very information-dense, which allows you to watch the skies throughout the year. This subject interests my MIL (who lives next door!) as she's learning about astrology - astrology is tied to astronomy, of course.Not sure why one reviewer bemoans the lack of jokes (?) as this is an Almanac, as such there will be lots of information within. Maybe they thought they were ordering a different kind of book!For those interested in any sort of celestial events - meteor showers, moonphases, sunrise / sunset..my partner is into astronomy too and has sneaked a few looks to see what's coming up each month.Highly recommended if this is your fascination!

A very handy little book full of information. The paper could be better quality and a few colour images would be nice. For the price, it's worth buying, being small it fits in a pocket. Read this instead of your phone, you'll learn something!

This is a lovely book and would make an excellent gift for somebody who is into astronomy, whether they're a casual observer or avid stargazer.You can get apps that do the same sort of thing as this book, but they're not as nice, nor as tactile. Not only does the book tell you about the astronomical events coming up this year, it also has some great information about positional astronomy. It clarifies terms and explains why you can see what you can see. It also has lists of dark sky sites across the globe - one day I'll make it to one.For me this at the moment this is just an aspirational guide, but it's books like this that will prod me into putting a warm jumper on and heading out to look at the heavens!

This is a review for the Night Sky Almanac for 2025, from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.At first glance, this is a very appealing book. The hardboard cover is attractively coloured and printed with an interesting design. It would be a lovely book to casually place in a visible spot in order to impress your visitors!Written content is pretty good, as are the diagrams. There is a month by month guide to key astronomical events, sunrises/sunsets, phases of the moon etc. Each month also features an extra small piece. For example, January's section includes an entry about Giovanni Cassini. In February, we learn about Vera Rubin.The book is black and white throughout which is a little disappointing. This makes most of the actual space photos somewhat pointless as we just get a vague splotches rendered in greyscale. I understand why a hardback costing just £9.99 would need to be black and white, but I think the book's designers should have recognised the limitations of black and white images and used more diagrams or a better selection of photos with greater light/dark contrast.There's also been a strange decision to have quite a wide margins throughout the book. This means that the text is pushed into the centre and therefore text closest to the central fold is quite difficult to read. It feels like a very poor design choice and makes me less inclined to pick the book up to read.Overall, if you want a pretty book to serve as decoration, then this may fit the bill. However, if you actually want to learn about astronomy month by month, you are probably better off looking at this information online.

This is a lovely little book which has some fascinating information as well as some that is very useful and great hints, tips and diagrams. We also found it very easy to read and dip in and out of. We are looking forward to using this next year and hopefully being able to spot all the highlights.I've never heard of an Almanac outside of sports of movies so discovering this was an eye opener for me. It really is full of great information to make the most of the night sky in this country over the next year. We just have to hope the skies are cloud free on the relevant dates now we know when and where to be looking!