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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Deep-Sky Catalogs
  name:
    name part: Cavin, Jerry D.
    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: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 380 p. 11 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 lists and catalogs followed this, and many, including Messier's, have become popular with amateur astronomers who see it as a challenge to find everything on the list or as a guide on what to see when they look through their telescopes or binoculars. In this "catalog of catalogs," the author introduces the figures behind the most famous of the star catalogs and includes the catalog listings as well. Thus here, all in one book, is your complete guide to the heavenly bodies - including constellations, galaxies, nebulae, supernova remnants, and much more - that most people seek to see when they observe the night sky. Here are enough challenges for a lifetime of exciting viewing!
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Jerry D. Cavin.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Geographical information systems
  subject:
    topic: Observations, Astronomical
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    topic: Observations
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
  classification: QB4
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series
  identifier: 9781461406563
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0656-3
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    record creation date: 110923
    record change date: 20151103124323.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-0656-3