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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Complete CD Guide to the Universe
    sub title: Practical Astronomy
  name:
    name part: Harshaw, Richard.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 120 p. online resource.
  abstract: This guide contains descriptions and charts for a total of almost 14,000 objects, and is probably the largest and most comprehensive Atlas of the Universe ever created for amateur astronomers. Spanning some 13,000 pages, this is a project that is possible only with Springer Extras. The atlas covers the whole range of objects viewable by amateur astronomers with 8 - to 11-inch telescopes, north of about latitude +40 degrees. Everything described here can be observed from suburban sites. Large-scale finder charts - in both normal and mirror-image "SCT" views - along with the extensive list of 14,000 objects provide a detailed observing guide for almost any practical amateur astronomer. Around 10,750 of the objects are double or multiple stars; the remaining 3000 or so represent the other classes of deep-sky objects. Double stars dominate this work for two reasons. First, for telescopes of modest aperture they are by far the most numerous type of object and second, double stars are usually bright enough to be easily observed from urban sites. The other deep-sky objects include many galaxies (1573 of them), and although dark-sky sites are of course best, many of these can be seen in skies that most amateurs would write off as hopeless for the task. There are 580 open clusters, 109 globular clusters, 148 planetary nebulae, plus a few others. The Complete CD Atlas of the Universe is a resource that could easily provide the basis of a whole lifetime of observing!
  table of contents: Book: Introduction -- How to observe different types of objects -- How to rate the sky -- How to keep a log -- How to observe double stars -- Detailed instructions on how to use the CD-R, with screen shots, examples, and a tutorial -- Appendix : summaries of the CD-R contents. CD-ROM: Approximately 3,000 pages (in PDF format) of maps and descriptive material, broken down as follows -- Double Stars -- Dark nebulae -- Bright nebulae -- Planetary nebulae -- Supernova remnants -- Open clusters -- Globular clusters -- Galaxies -- Quasi stellar objects -- Other -- Index -- Acrobat ® Reader -- Appendices.
  note: by Richard Harshaw.
  subject:
    topic: Popular works
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: 520
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: PatrickMoore’s Practical Astronomy Series
  identifier: 9780387468952
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-46895-2
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204143544.0
    record identifier: 978-0-387-46895-2