Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope

Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 387
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ISBN-10 : 038785357X
ISBN-13 : 9780387853574
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Book Synopsis Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope by : Philip Pugh

Download or read book Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope written by Philip Pugh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Messier's telescope (thought to be a 4-inch) was, by today's amateur standards, small. It also had rather poor optics by modern standards. Thus - and despite the fact that he was a master observer - all the things Messier saw can be found and observed by any observer using a commercial 127 mm (5-inch) telescope. Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope lets the reader follow in Messier's footsteps by observing the Messier objects more or less as the great man saw them himself!


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