3,000 deep-sky objects an annotated catalogue /

3,000 deep-sky objects [electronic resource] : an annotated catalogue / Ted Aranda.

The Annotated Catalog of 3,000 Deep-Sky Objects is a record of the most extensive and systematic visual survey of the sky done in modern times. The 3,000 deep-sky objects listed contain short descriptions of what these objects look like in the author's powerful binocular telescope. Objects in t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Aranda, Ted
Other title:Three thousand deep-sky objects.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, ©2012.
Series:Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
Subjects:
Astronomy > Observers' manuals.
Astronomy.
Handbooks and manuals.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Introduction. 1. The observing project: an overview
  • 2. Objects chosen and mode of observing
  • 3. Verbal descriptions vs. illustrations
  • 4. Instrumentation
  • 5. The GC/NGC descriptions and the Herschels
  • 6. Observational parameters in the descriptions of this catalogue
  • 7. The visual appearance of deep-sky objects
  • 8. Binocular vision
  • 9. How to use this catalogue
  • pt. II. The catalogue. 10. 0 to 6 hours: FALL
  • 11. 6 to 12 hours: WINTER
  • 12. 12 to 18 hours: SPRING
  • 13. 18 to 24 hours: SUMMER
  • Appendix A. Making a sky atlas
  • Appendix B. Notes on object descriptions
  • Appendix C. The visibility of Galactic detail
  • Appendix D. Building a binocular telescope. Index.

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