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Summary
Summary
* A detailed and comprehensive guide to observing the deep sky * All descriptions meticulously researched and checked for this book * Information and descriptions for more than 2000 galaxies, nebulae and star clusters * Suitable for use with small telescopes * Helpful charts and advice on how to observe * Comprehensive catalogue included * Essential reference for telescope users and astrophotographers This is the most detailed guide to observing galaxies, clusters and nebulae available in a single volume. The objects included range from those visible in binoculars to faint galaxies requiring a 30 cm telescope. For most objects descriptions are given for a range of telescope apertures; the catalogue contains data not available elsewhere.
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As their skill improves, most telescope owners want to observe more and more faint objects; this book will serve as a guide into this region of "deep sky" objects with its information on objects as faint as the 15th magnitude. The authors personally observed each of the 2,050 objects with different sized telescopes, and the descriptions of what they saw will fill the needs of most amateurs. The authors' descriptions are listed by constellation, together with identifications and magnitudes. A catalog at the end contains all the positions of the objects listed in the descriptive part of the book. The observer will need this listing to know where to point the telescope, necessitating a lot of moving back and forth in the book while observing (the positions might better have been put with the descriptive list). Unfortunately, the catalog lists the data from each originating catalog separately so the user will not be able to go to one ordered list to find all the objects in a given part of the sky. Readers will probably want to use this volume with a good star atlas, such as Wil Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000.0 (CH, May'82), to guide them into this difficult field. In spite of these caveats, the volume represents a unique introduction to a long-neglected part of the sky, and will open many opportunities for observing by amateurs and professionals alike. -H. Albers, Vassar College
Table of Contents
| List of charts, tables and figures |
| Prolegomenon |
| Part I Amateur Observing |
| Telescopes |
| Eyepieces |
| Finderscopes and finding |
| Star atlases |
| Gadgets |
| Looking through the telescope |
| Lighting and the recording of notes |
| Observing locations |
| Instruments used in the survey of deep-sky objects |
| Observing sites for the survey |
| Part II Deep-Sky Data Sources |
| Galaxies |
| Open clusters |
| Globular clusters |
| Planetary nebulae |
| Galactic nebulae |
| Double stars |
| Part III Observations |
| Notes on references for deep-sky observers |
| Catalogue |
| Appendix of double stars |
