The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Deep-Sky Catalogs [E-Book] / by Jerry D. Cavin.
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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| Personal Name(s): | Cavin, Jerry D, author |
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1st ed. 2012. |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
2012
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| Physical Description: |
X, 380 pages 11 illustrations, 3 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
| ISBN: |
9781461406563 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4614-0656-3 |
| Series Title: |
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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- 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.