The amateur astronomer's guide to the deep-sky catalogs
All of us familiar with astronomy know of Charles Messier and his early work on creating a catalog of celestial objects. Did you know that Messier was compiling a list of objects to avoid when searching the skies? He was a comet hunter, and he wanted to not mistake other things for comets. Other lis...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2012.
Cham : Springer Nature |
| Schriftenreihe: | Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The amateur astronomer's guide to the deep-sky catalogs, Texte imprimé |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Claudius Ptolemy and the Almagest
- Chapter 2: The Abd-al-Rahman Al-Sufi Catalog
- Chapter 3: Ulugh Beg
- Chapter 4: The Tycho Brahe Catalog
- Chapter 5: The Johannes Hevelius Catalog
- Chapter 6: The Charles Messier Catalog
- Chapter 7: The Johann Elert Bode Catalog
- Chapter 8: Christian Mayer Catalog
- Chapter 9: The Herschel Catalogs
- Chapter 10: The J.L.E. Dreyer and the NGC Catalog
- Chapter 11: Halton Arp and the Arp Catalog
- Chapter 12: The Caldwell Catalog
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B.- Index