{"id":1068,"date":"2014-08-26T20:28:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/?page_id=1068"},"modified":"2014-08-26T22:34:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T20:34:20","slug":"1068-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/?page_id=1068","title":{"rendered":"Preface to the Digital Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may wonder why I&#8217;ve put a complete book online.\u00a0 \u201cStarry Sky for Binoculars\u201d is a spin-off of a much larger project: Many years ago I started to collected all the information about objects for binoculars and interesting facts about stars and mythology. The result was a 300 pages thick book which is so far only available in German: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernglasastronomie.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomie mit Fernglas und Rich-Field-Teleskopen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book which is presented on this website is a much smaller version which was initially written for a publisher, but because of various reasons (mostly because of budget and a small market) it was never printed. After some time in the &#8222;development hell&#8220; I decided to self-publish it, and use (at least the German version) also as &#8222;teaser&#8220; for the larger book. So, it is an experiment in E-publishing. That&#8217;s also the reason why you are free to share it, as long as you don&#8217;t earn money with it (non-commercial use, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>But if you like it, feel free to buy a copy of it &#8211; it is available at Amazon as ebook as well as paperback.\u00a0 But even if you don&#8217;t buy it, I wish you clear skies and hope that you enjoy stargazing!<\/p>\n<p>August 2014<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Kerste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may wonder why I&#8217;ve put a complete book online.\u00a0 \u201cStarry Sky for Binoculars\u201d is a spin-off of a much larger project: Many years ago I started to collected all the information about objects for binoculars and interesting facts about stars and mythology. The result was a 300 pages thick book which is so far &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/?page_id=1068\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Preface to the Digital Release<\/span> weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1068","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1068\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/freebook.fernglas-astronomie.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}