3,000 Deep-Sky Objects

Download or read book 3,000 Deep-Sky Objects written by Ted Aranda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a comprehensive set of visual descriptions of deep-sky objects visible from the northern hemisphere. It is a record of the most extensive and systematic visual survey of the sky ever done in modern times. 3,000 deep-sky objects are listed with short descriptions of the visual appearance in the author's powerful binocular telescope. Objects in the book are organized by position for easy identification of unknown targets. Full indexes by catalog numbers and names allow searches for specific objects.