Observing the Messier objects with a small telescope in the footsteps of a great observer
| Main Author: | Pugh, Philip, author |
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| Format: | Book Bachelors |
| Terbitan: |
Spinger Science
, 2012
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| Online Access: |
http://lib.ui.ac.id/file?file=digital/2016-4/20424827-Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope.pdf |
Daftar Isi:
- Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope contains descriptions and photographs of the 103 Messier objects, with instructions on how to find them without a computerized telescope or even setting circles. The photographs show how the objects appear through a 127mm Maksutov (and other instruments, where applicable). The visual appearance of a Messier object is often very different from what can be imaged with the same telescope, and a special feature of this book is that it shows what you can see with a small telescope. It will also contain binocular descriptions of some objects. Messier published the final version of his catalog in 1781 (it contains 103 different objects), a catalog so good that it is still in common use today, well over two centuries later. In making a catalog of all the 'fixed' deep-sky objects that observers might confuse with comets, Messier had succeeded in listing all the major interesting deep-sky objects that today are targets for amateur astronomers.