Observer’s Sky Atlas: The five hundred Finest Deep-Sky Objects With Charts and Photos
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Now expanded and in full colour, and helpful to 2060!
This super re-creation of a traditional e-book (beforehand revealed solely in black-and-white) accommodates star charts and footage, for all those that observe the night time sky with unaided eyes, binoculars or telescopes. It’s equally helpful for novices and skilled previous arms at astronomy.
A legend amongst passion astronomers, this solely revised and up to date version has new celestial maps in full colour, up-to-date knowledge from the Gaia spacecraft and distinctive comparability photographs of most seen celestial objects. Sixty-one all-new star charts are good by way of 2060, and there are 532 footage of stars, galaxies and nebulae, 415 of them in full colour.
Very detailed place figures assist the astronomer navigate the charts and precisely pinpoint objects for viewing – and figuring out what you are seeing.
The passion astronomer can use it to seek out star clusters, gaseous nebulae and galaxies all through the night time sky. Fast orientation is assured, and intermediate astronomers can actually benefit from the night time sky for hours and hours by figuring out the place to find the objects of their curiosity.
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Observer’s Sky Atlas: The five hundred Finest Deep-Sky Objects With Charts and Photos
An indispensable traditional information for anybody utilizing binoculars or a small telescope to go looking the sky.
Now expanded and in full colour, and helpful to 2060!
Every deep-sky object mentioned has a star chart, a finder chart, an outline, catalog knowledge, a picture for visible observations and a photograph, all on the identical double web page unfold. As well as, this re-creation accommodates predictions for the separation of binaries all the way in which to 2060 and a brand new part that features photographs and charts for observing the Milky Method
Star Charts
This sky atlas consists of catalog knowledge on the web page going through the star charts. This manner, a lot data may be given with only one label within the charts, leaving the charts uncluttered.
Constellations
The constellations with their space in grey and blue and their traces. The brightened stripe at backside marks the area that continues to be invisible from mid-northern latitudes.
Magnitude
Desk 3 can counsel easy methods to discover appropriate objects for an observing session. For instance, an observer with binoculars on a discipline removed from metropolis lights and with no vital moonlight will search for cube symbols with greater than three stuffed dots. Skilled observers might want to verify their limits of visibility 3 or floor brightness 13/’
The sky from the planet of the closest star, Proxima Centauri. Close by stars seem displaced. Good Rigil Kentaurus shines at magnitude –7. The solar is the eighth brightest star within the sky, situated in Cassiopeia. Sirius and Betelgeuse seem as an in depth pair.
Writer : Firefly Books; Fourth Version, Up to date and in Full Colour (March 10, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0228104106
ISBN-13 : 978-0228104100
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.44 x 9.5 inches
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Prospects discover the e-book informative, detailed, and complete. They recognize the diploma of group and cleverly organized data. Readers additionally recognize the beautiful pictures with extraordinary element and illustration.
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soupwell –
One of the most well organized and thought out reference books I’ve ever encountered
It’s absolutely gorgeous too. The stunning photographs inspire me to get out and aim my scope at something amazing.
Very well laid out for allowing you to plan viewing sessions and locate your targets in the night sky.
The author even built the color scheme of the star charts to aid in viewing under an astronomer’s red light.
I wish every product I purchased was designed this thoughtfully.
One downside- now I’ve got to plan a trip to the Southern hemisphere because this star atlas covers some spectacular objects that can’t be viewed from home!
Dy –
Pictures say it all
Really nice book for a good price. There are nicer books of course, but they are way out of my acceptable price range. This is a nice, informative book, with all (and more)of the information I need. Great pictures and it works just like my moon atlas, reference the map in the cover and go to the specific page for that object. Hardback and nice smooth pages.
Tino –
It doesn’t get any better than this.
This is an excellent tool for any level astronomer. The very best! a wealth of information. If you read the user info at the beginning of the book you will have no trouble adapting to this type of atlas … if you can call it a regular atlas. it in much, much more. I would call it a tool of the trade. I use this with the Sky and Telescope pocket edition. I use no others but these two. Hands down the best.
KM –
Lots of info, very well organized
I’ve been an amateur astronomer and telescope maker since childhood, and am normally pretty skeptical about night sky observing books, which tend to be pitched at a novice level, and filled with diffuse and general info that I know cold. I received a flyer featuring this and three other books at Stellafane last week, and while I could quickly rule out three of the four, this one seemed worth a preview on Amazon, and what I saw convinced me to give it a try. It arrived yesterday, and I have to say that I am really impressed, and will be using this observing atlas regularly. It has an incredible amount of information, arranged in a clever and highly organized manner. Lumping globulars, open clusters, galaxies, and actual nebulae all together under one “nebula” category is a bit odd, but these are in fact properly sub-categorized by number. It takes a little while to decode the dense info that is served up, but explanatory pages just before the core set of “star charts” do a good job of this, and once you are up to speed on the pattern, you have a lot of info at your disposal. Having this all in a single compact volume makes it more likely to be put to use at the telescope, where more verbose multi-volume approaches stay put on the shelf. I think that the author has done a great job, providing the observing community with a valuable new resource.
Bright Eyes Mom –
Good for all
Bought this as a gift for someone. They had told me about an old school star map they bought at Cape Hatters years and years ago. It was spiral, like a notebook, and you could write on it and wipe it off. I looked and looked and could not find it. After reading reviews on probably 100 different books, I selected this as the gift. The gift went over great, we spent hours looking at it upon opening. Itâs loaded with info for all. The recipient has been gazing at stars for years, through telescopes and binoculars or just standing out in the dark. Me not so much, Iâve been around telescope probably more than the average person, can point out a few things by eye, but thatâs about it. The book was good for both of us, had stuff she understood but broke stuff down to where I could understand. I can see why they say good for all stargazers
Batfire –
Quick concise reference at your finger tips.
I picked this book up 6 months ago and now use it every session of astrophotography. Sure the online spots like stellarium show you the night sky but this book is the goto book if you are looking for the best way to find your targets whether you have a goto scope or manual scope. I have found many of my target objects for the night that the goto couldn’t seem to lock on using this atlas. I have had many atlases over the years from Burnham’s celestial handbooks to many other sky atlases but never with every bit of information at your finger tips without having to sit there and read 30mins to find what your looking for. I highly recommend the Sky Atlas for finding those elusive objects in the night sky.
Amazon Customer –
Good photo’s and maps with instructions on how to use it to find the objects you want to find
Alfonso fernandez Sanchez –
El que este escrito en inglés no deberÃa ser un impedimento para su uso. La información está organizada de forma inteligente, resultando muy practica para la observación del cielo.
Para los que no están familiarizados con el cielo nocturno lo pueden combinar con un atlas del cielo digital (Stellarium o Cartes du Ciel).
Merece la pena.
Chris Jordan –
I didn’t quite know how to catorgeries this atlas since it’s ostensibly about 500 deep sky objects curated by the author, and I already own several atlases and handbooks with far more DSO’s…so why would I buy it.
Simply put, it is absolutely brilliant.
It is idiosincratic and follows none of the usual conventions of astronomy charts and books, but conveys the information in the most incredible graphic fashion.
It starts with 17 pages of pertinent information about the construction of the atlas which you need to read in detail to get the most from it.
Then follows over 100 pages of all-sky charts, which are not only highly detailed on their own but inlaid with very precise finder charts, detailed images and thumbnail visual images of various DSO’s.
Finally there is a very comprehensive index of DSO’s, star names with magnitude and visual colour, oppositions, meteor showers and even maps of the Milky Way.
As said, it is specific to the DSO’s described, but also far more than that, I have never come across any book (on any subject) that conveys so much information per square inch of page surface than this.
It is quite, quite brilliant, I’m glad I own a copy.
Starman44 –
I First bought this Author’s ‘Observer’s Star Atlas’ around 25 years ago.
I didn’t know a single Constellation then.
Now I stumble on to the latest greatest book of Erich’s and find a new Glossy Updated Version of the same book. There’s not many books that can’t be improved but this might be one of them.
I’ve now seen all the Northern Constellations and observed Deep Sky objects such as The Veil Nebula through big Telescopes and this book covers them all. I can’t wait to get back under clear skies with a Big Refractor and this book! I might even have a go at finding 3C273 The most exotic object visible in amateur telescopes – The 60 M light year distant Quasar is charted in this book once more & I’m so glad it’s till here now that I might actually stand a chance of finding it. Superb!
FXF –
The book provides two levels of maps: constellation-wide maps and multiple close-up maps with 1cm=1° for specific objects.
It gives multiple data to understand where each object is, what it is, what magnification is needed, and the size. It provides magnitude and magnitude per square minute for nebulae. It often shows between 5 and 10 pictures of the most interesting objects of the constellation, and sometimes much more.
This book is fantastic.