Deep-Sky Companions: Southern Gems
Cambridge University Press, 4/8/2013
EAN 9781107015012, ISBN10: 1107015014
Hardcover, 450 pages, 26 x 18.5 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
In Southern Gems, Stephen James O'Meara makes a detour beneath the southern skies, presenting a fresh list of 120 deep-sky objects for southern hemisphere stargazers to observe. Showcasing many exceptional objects catalogued by the pioneering observer James Dunlop, known as the 'Messier of the southern skies', all are visible through small- to moderate-sized telescopes or binoculars under dark skies. The list features some of the blackest dark nebulae, icy blue planetary nebulae and magnificent galaxies of all types. Each object is accompanied by beautiful photographs and sketches, original finder charts, visual histories and up-to-date astrophysical background information. Whether you live in the southern hemisphere or are just visiting, this new Deep-Sky Companion will make a perfect observing partner, whatever your background. There is no other southern sky guide like it on the market.
Preface
1. How to use this book
2. The southern gems
Appendix A. Southern gems
basic data
Appendix B. Forty-two additional southern gems in Dunlop's catalogue
Appendix C. A brief history of early telescopic exploration of the far-southern skies
Appendix D. Photo credits
The southern gems checklist
Index
Wide-field star charts.
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