IntroductionChapter 1 - The Night Sky
* Observing the Night Sky and the Celestial Sphere
* The Spring/Fall Sky (Northern Hemisphere/Southern Hemisphere)
* The Summer/Winter Sky
* The Fall/Spring Sky
* The Winter/Summer Sky
Chapter 2 - The Age Before Telescopes
* Ancient Greek Astronomer Anaxagoras and Angelo Secchi - the Sun
* Tycho Brahe - SN 1572
* Johannes Kepler - SN 1604
Chapter 3 - Telescopic Astronomy - Discoveries before cameras
* Thomas Henderson - Alpha Centauri (first to measure distance to a star)
* Friedrich Bessel and 61 Cygni (proper motion)
* Benedetto Castelli and J. B. Liebknecht - Mizar, Alcor and Sidus Ludoviciana in Big Dipper
* John Goodricke - Algol (Eclipsing Binary)
Chapter 4 - Coaxing Out the Detail - Spectroscopy Reveals Stellar Secrets
* Spectroscopy - How it works and what it tells us about stars
* The pioneering work of William Huggins, Henry Draper, et al.
* Edward Charles Pickering and Mizar
* Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet - WR Stars in Cygnus
* Angelo Secchi - Carbon Stars
Chapter 5 - Standard Candles - How Stars are Used to Determine Cosmic Distances
* The Distance Modulus and Standard Candles
* Edward Pigott, John Goodricke and Henrietta Swan - Cepheid variables
* E. C. Pickering, Jacobus Kapteyn and Williamina Fleming - RR Lyrae variable
* Subrahmahyan Chandrasekhar and Mark Phillips - Type 1a Supernovae
* Other Standard Candles
Chapter 6 - Star Names and Designations
* Origin of Named Stars
* Common Star Designations used for Charts/Planetarium Software
Chapter 7 - Introduction to Catalogues and Handbooks of Stars and Deep Sky Objects
Appendix
Glossary and comprehensive index.
