Thinking about writing my own book about introductory astronomy, for everyone who's ever asked me for random space facts. It would be divided into equipment talk, basic celestial navigation and what to look at depending on your gear and experience level, and random fun facts.

When i say book, i mean making a pdf and maybe having carter bookbind up a few copies for field use if anyone wants. But first, i gotta organize.

Ok lets outline.
Chapter 1: "So you want to get into astronomy" (very basics about the minimum requirements, practical things to know, good starter resources, things to remember, etc)
Chapter 2: "Introductory Gear" (basic scopes and binocs, mounts, reference materials, etc)

Chapter 3: "The Northern Circle" (covering the stuff that is almost always visible from the northern hemisphere, like the dippers)
Chapter 4: "Fun Facts and Cool Concepts 1" (basic things like, what some of the different things in the sky are and where we are in the universe)

Chapter 5: "The Spring Sky" (Covering things well visible in the northern hemisphere from March to May)
Chapter 6: "The Summer Sky" (covering things well visible from June to August)
Chapter 7: "The Fall Sky" (covering things well visible from September to November)

Chapter 8: "The Winter Sky" (covering what you can see from December to February, and winter observing preparations)
Chapter 9: "So you want to Get Serious" (covering more advanced gear, bigger scopes (6-12 inches), introductory astrophotography stuff, etc)

Chapter 11: "Observing Solar System Objects" (the planets, their moons, the moon, the sun)
Chapter 12: "Observing the Exotic" (the rarer and harder to see things, like auroras, zodiacal light, comets, and eclipses)

Chapter 13: "Fun Facts and Cool Concepts 2" (In which we get a little more abstract and talk about the lives of stars, rarer galactic things like black holes and supernovas, and extrasolar planets)
Chapter 14: "The Southern Hemisphere" (covering things not visible in the north)

Chapter 15: "More Challenging Targets" (covering fainter things that you would need a bigger scope to see well)
Chapter 16: "More Advanced Gear" (getting into bigger scopes, more expensive setups, more serious astrophotography stuff, etc)

Chapter 17: "Astronomy Around the World" (covering things like clubs and star parties and other events and groups that hobbyists have organized)
Chapter 18: "Things to Remember" (A little bit about dos and donts, observing site qualities, light pollution, and other misc things)