"First published in the United States in 2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes interactive night sky CD-ROM.

Includes index.

Our place in space -- Looking at the night sky -- How to use this atlas -- North Polar sky -- South Polar sky -- Equatorial sky 1 -- Equatorial sky 2 -- Equatorial sky 3 -- Equatorial sky 4 -- January: Orion -- Lives of stars -- February: Canis Major -- Star types -- March: Carina -- Measuring Stars -- April: Virgo -- Clouds in space -- May: Ursa Major -- Milky Way -- June: Centaurus and Crux -- Galaxies -- July: Scorpius -- Sun -- August: Sagittarius -- Moon -- September: Cygnus -- Inner planets -- October: Andromeda -- Giant planets -- November: Perseus -- Small solar system worlds -- December: Taurus -- Looking at the universe -- Glossary.

Featuring up-to-the-minute discoveries and state-of-the-art space photography, this atlas illustrates all that science has revealed about constellations, the evolution of stars and galaxies, and the planets in the solar system. Acetate overlays highlight special points of interest to show even more about what we see in the night sky.

Minimum system requirements on p. [2] of cover.