A field guide to deep-sky objects

✍ Scribed by Michael D. Inglis (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This star guide enables amateur astronomers to focus on a class of object, and using an observation list that begins with the easiest object, find and move progressively over a period of months to more difficult targets. Includes detailed descriptive summaries of each class of object. Amateur astronomers of all levels will find this book invaluable for its broad-ranging background material, its lists of fascinating objects, and for its power to improve practical observing skills while viewing many different types of deep-sky objects.

This new edition of A Field Guide to Deep-sky Objects brings in a correction of out-of-date science along with two new chapters; Transient objects, and Naked-Eye Deep Sky Objects. This edition adds up-to-date information and on the objects mentioned above.

This new edition of A Field Guide to Deep-sky Objects brings in a correction of out-of-date science along with two new chapters; Transient objects, and Naked-Eye Deep Sky Objects. This edition adds up-to-date information and on the objects mentioned above.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Some Background....Pages 1-25
The Stars....Pages 27-103
Star Clusters....Pages 105-139
Nebulae....Pages 141-172
Galaxies....Pages 173-208
Faint, Far Away and Invisible....Pages 209-216
Naked-Eye Objects....Pages 217-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-253

✦ Subjects

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Astrophysics and Astroparticles