The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Deep-Sky Catalogs

• Main Author: Cavin, Jerry D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Geographical information systems.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.

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...

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.