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An Atlas of Local Group Galaxies (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)

By Paul W. Hodge , Brooke P. Skelton , Joy Ashizawa

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2002
ISBN
9781402006739, 140200673X, 0306478188
LCC
QB857 .H537 2002
Open Library ID
OL19289387M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
59 MB (61614325 bytes)
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library
Edition
1
Pages
431\431
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

A very serious error was made in an earlier review of this book by amateur astronomer Roger Raurbach. He stated that four of the five globular clusters of the Fornax dwarf galaxy were misidentified in the Atlas. That is incorrect. The three inner clusters were discovered by Harlow Shapley, Walter Baade and Edwin Hubble and I discovered the two outer clusters; their identities, as shown in the Atlas, were published in the Astronomical Journal, volume 66, page 8, 1961. Their positions are well-known to professional astronomers and several papers, including some based on Hubble Space Telescope images, have been published recently, covering both color-magnitude diagrams of the clusters' stars and spectroscopy, giving their metallicities. Please discount my rating of this book, which is meaningless, as I am an author.

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