The International Astronomical Union's book and movie celebrating the 400th anniversary of the telescope. Features:

• Hardcover
• 132 pages (24,000 words)
• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Lots of full-page photographs
• Boxes and illustrations give an understandable overview of processes, telescopes and backgrounds.
• Similar in style to the popular Hubble — 15 years of discovery
• Aimed at laypeople
• To be launched for the International Year of Astronomy 2009
• Comes with the DVD Eyes on the Skies
• Size: 247 mm (W) x 297 mm (H)
• In English

ISBN-10: 3-527-40867-3
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40867-2 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin

Further information can be found on the Eyes on the Skies official website.

Credit: Written by Govert Schilling and Lars Lindberg Christensen .