Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–59, the well-preserved painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. For many years, the attribution of the painting—which features a young Dutch woman reading a letter before an open window—was lost, with first Rembrandt and then Pieter de Hooch being credited for the work before it was properly identified in 1880. After World War II, the painting was briefly in possession of the Soviet Union. The painting depicts
NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe for amateur astronomers of all levels of experience. Over its 30-year life and with each new edition, reviews by newspapers, magazines, and science and astronomy journals have been consistently enthusiastic. This latest edition contains dozens of new photographs, which show the latest and most important discoveries made by current space observatories and probes. The aim of NightWatch is to impart knowledge of the Universe and how to observe it in a ready-friendly manner and assuming no prior experience with astronomy. The book's thirteen chapters are heavily illustrated with photographs, illustrations, diagrams and star charts. Terence Dickinson describes NightWatch as “a