Sky Vistas: Astronomy for Binoculars and Richest-Field Telescopesgalactic perspective." Much of the pleasure of Sky Vistas is an astronomy guidebook for both astronomical observing comes from "looking" with active and "armchair" observers. First, it is a practical observing guide to the deep-sky objects the mind as well as the eye. Thus Sky Vistas describes how the naked-eye appearance of the that are visible in low-power, wide-field instruments MilkyWay itselfrelates to the spiral structure of our like binoculars and richest-field telescopes (RFTs). Galaxy in the vicinity of the Sun, how the familiar Second, it is a reader's guide to how the familiar bright nebulae and open clusters are distributed bright nebulae and star clusters along the Milky Way "trace" the spiral arms in the Sun's vicinity, along our Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms in the neighborhood of the Sun, and to how the brightest and how the eyepiece appearance ofindividual open clusters relates to their age and (as a consequence) galaxies are distributed with respect to our Milky to where they are with respect to the spiral arms. Way Galaxy and to the Local Galaxy Group of And galaxies are discussed in their actual physical which our Milky Way is a member. Not many observing guides have been written groupings, and their eyepiece appearances are expressly for binoculars and small richest-field tele related to their true structures. |
Contents
V | 3 |
VII | 4 |
VIII | 5 |
IX | 15 |
XI | 16 |
XII | 17 |
XIV | 19 |
XV | 29 |
LII | 139 |
LIII | 149 |
LIV | 151 |
LV | 158 |
LVI | 171 |
LVII | 173 |
LVIII | 177 |
LIX | 179 |
XVI | 30 |
XVII | 33 |
XVIII | 34 |
XIX | 36 |
XXII | 37 |
XXIII | 38 |
XXIV | 41 |
XXV | 43 |
XXVII | 48 |
XXVIII | 53 |
XXIX | 56 |
XXX | 58 |
XXXI | 59 |
XXXII | 60 |
XXXIII | 61 |
XXXIV | 62 |
XXXV | 65 |
XXXVI | 73 |
XXXVII | 79 |
XXXVIII | 80 |
XXXIX | 81 |
XL | 90 |
XLI | 95 |
XLII | 97 |
XLIII | 100 |
XLIV | 103 |
XLV | 104 |
XLVI | 106 |
XLVII | 113 |
XLVIII | 115 |
XLIX | 121 |
L | 125 |
LI | 137 |
Other editions - View all
Sky Vistas: Astronomy for Binoculars and Richest-Field Telescopes Craig Crossen,Gerald Rhemann Limited preview - 2012 |
Sky Vistas: Astronomy for Binoculars and Richest-Field Telescopes Craig Crossen,Gerald Rhemann No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
10x50 binoculars 15x100 supergiant absolute magnitude Alpha apparent mag apparent magnitude appears association averted vision background glow Beta binoc bright stars brighter brightest members bulge Cassiopeia central Cepheus clus cluster members color Coma Berenices Coma-Virgo Cluster compact conspicuous constellation core Cygni Cygnus dark diameter disc distance Double Cluster dust clouds east edge elliptical emission nebula faint stars fainter field stars galactic equator Galaxy Group Galaxy's Gamma giant binoculars globular clusters halo hydrogen integrated absolute mag integrated apparent interstellar dust lenticular light-years light-years distant located low-surface-brightness lucida luminosity luminous main sequence Milky million light-years molecular cloud Monoceros object open cluster NGC Orion Perseus Photo planetary nebulae Plate Pleiades Puppis reflection nebulae Rift Sagittarius seen Spiral Arm Star Cloud star field star's stellar nucleus Suns supergiant binoculars supergiant glasses supernova surface brightness telescopes true Ursa Major visible wide-field Zeta