NIGHT SKY: STARGAZING WITH THE NAKED EYE

by Robert Harvey (Amber £19.99)

HERE’S an unusual one. Although called Night Sky, it’s not just about stars and planets and distant galaxies and the infinitude of space. It’s also about the earthly landscapes from which such visions can be seen.

Robert Harvey is a landscape astrophotographer — not a term I’d heard before — and this is a collection of his wonderful photographs, which tend to follow a pattern: the stars apparently illuminating the (artfully lit) ground beneath (as with Stonehenge above).

So, while Cassiopeia and Orion’s Belt are here, Harvey is more interested in the aesthetics than the science.

And you’ll do well to find many more arresting images than these.