The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas Hardback - Hardcover

Mellinger; Stoyan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107013461 ISBN 13: 9781107013469

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Providing a mosaic of the entire sky, this unique atlas is unparalleled in detail and completeness, making it indispensable for visual observers and astrophotographers. Each double-page spread shows large-scale photographic images with corresponding charts highlighting and naming over 1500 deep-sky objects and 2500 stars.

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Críticas:

'Book of the month: this is a wonderful companion to a conventional atlas, as well as a superb coffee table book.' BBC Sky at Night Magazine

'... should prove a valuable reference to the advanced-amateur community.' The Observatory

'... the most beautiful star atlas of modern times ... What a perfect tool for cloudy-night star gazing! And a fine reference book for the historian.' Journal for the History of Astronomy

Biografía del autor:

Axel Mellinger is an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University. He is an accomplished astrophotographer and his wide-field mosaics of the night sky are used in planetariums around the world.

Ronald Stoyan is editor-in-chief of Interstellarum, one of Germany's main astronomy magazines. Founding director of the German deep sky organization Fachgruppe Deep-Sky, he has authored and co-authored six books on practical astronomy.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1107013461
• ISBN 13: 9781107013469
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 186