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Atlas of the Messier Objects: Highlights of the Deep Sky

By Ronald Stoyan , Stefan Binnewies , Susanne Friedrich , Klaus-Peter Schroeder

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780521895545, 0521895545
Open Library ID
OL23222287M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
24 MB (25210716 bytes)
Pages
372\372
Topic
Education
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

I got "Atlas of the Messier Objects - Highlights of the Deep Sky" by Ronald Stoyan this week. It is a well designed large format book that covers eack of the 110 Messier Objects in detail. There are also sections of Charles Messier's life, the telescopes he used, the history of his catalog et cetera. This book would not be very useful in locating the Messier Objects, but it is great if you want to know what the objects are, their history and so on. There are also observing tips, drawings and photos of each object and (best of all) historical drawings of many of the objects by Messier, Herschel and others.

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