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Binding: Hardcover
Brand: Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 523.80216
Fabric Type: 9780943396606
Legal Disclaimer: 0943396603
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 360
Maximum Color Depth: Willmann-Bell
Metal Type: Willmann-Bell
Pearl Type: 0943396603
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 506
Total External Bays Free: 1998-12
Total Firewire Ports: Willmann-Bell
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Features:- Arrangement of the Guide:
- Each chapter is devoted to a constellation. The first page is devoted to generalcomments about the constellation. The second page is a map of the constellation which faces a stellar data table which usually fills the entire page.
- The remaining pages of each chapter contain photographs, sketches and finding charts - and all of these pages include writen descriptions of objects as seen through different sized instruments.
- Constellations Covered:
- VOLUME 1: Autumn and Winter
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Amateur astronomers today are exceptionally fortunate to be living in an era when high quality, and very large, optics are so affordable. In the first half of the 20th century the telescope deluxe for the amateur was the 6-inch refractor. However, such telescopes were so expensive that very few amateurs could afford them: the majority of stargazers had to content themselves with instruments in the 60mm range. Consequently, most observing guides published during that time emphasized double and multiple stars, with honorable mention for variable stars and planetary nebulae, objects which do well in long focal length refractors. Webb's 1858 Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes and Olcott's 1936 Field Book of the Skies were not superceded for so many decades simply because the average amateur instrument did not dramatically improve during the century after Webb. By the 1950s the mass-produced or homemade 6-inch parabolic mirror brought medium-sized optics into the price range of the average amateur, and with it the emission nebulae, open clusters, and galaxies that had been seen only as amorphous blobs-if seen at all-in small refractors. The The 1948 Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens had already displaced the classic Norton's Star Atlas as the frontline sky-chart for amateurs, but the observing guides badly needed rewriting. However, not until the 1970s and Burnham's Celestial Handbook was there an observing guide worthy of the 6-in
Average Rating: 
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Excellent dictionary of what is out there. Tons of info and a great help in identifying objects. It describes where the object is located and what it looks like through the scope. It goes with me on every star party.
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For years the advanced observer was hard put to find an appropriate observing guide. Beginners' guides included descriptions but too few objects. The catalogs that came with the bigger atlases contained many objects but little to no description. And then there was Burnham's, a wonderful book for its day but quite inadequate for the modern world of large Dobs, wide-angle eyepieces, and nebula filters.
Now filling the gap is the Night Sky Observer's Guide (NSOG), an intermediate to advanced ... Read More
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This two volume set will certainly join Burnhams three volume set as a long term classic, superior in some ways, but drier and very professional in others. The numerous drawings and charts are priceless in locating deep sky objects. An earlier reviewer is correct in needing a complete sky atlas as well, such as Tirion's, to accompany the immense detail in these two volumes. The leaning toward large aperture is hardly a deficiency. It's a pity both volumes are listed here as "unavailable"....
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