This month, Cambridge University Press published Astronomy columnist Stephen James O’Meara ’s latest book for stargazers, Observing the Night Sky with Binoculars . The book — billed as “a simple guide to the heavens” — is for beginners. This is a new direction for Steve, who has published several guides to observing deep-sky objects with telescopes. I asked him why he wrote the book and how readers could benefit from it. Pendick: How did this book...