Overview
- The perfect guide for observing in the field with binoculars or a telescope
- Enables observing sessions to be planned in advance
- Objects are organized by season, making the book much easier to use
- Contains core information about the target star clusters
- Features superb digital images for every object
- Full-page finder charts make it easy to locate the target clusters
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide (ASTROPOC)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Background
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Star Cluster
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“An informative and easy to follow discussion about the life of stars sets the scene for the formation of star clusters themselves. This pocket guide then delivers a set of descriptions, images and charts for each of the 50 clusters covered. The charts are uncluttered and useful, and the descriptions interesting … . ideal for a beginner … .” (Steve Richards, Sky at Night Magazine, April, 2011)
“This book is an amateur’s guide to observing star clusters; it tells you where they are with a picture of the cluster and a finding chart and suggestions for what instrument to use. … It’s a nice little book that makes finding clusters easy and tells you about what you’re looking at, so it’s interesting for anybody with a telescope; and possibly very useful for teachers as it shows where to find clusters to illustrate various basic astronomy topics … .” (Simon Goodwin, The Observatory, Vol. 132 (1226), February, 2012)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Star Clusters
Book Subtitle: A Pocket Field Guide
Authors: Charles A. Cardona III
Series Title: Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7040-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7039-8Published: 08 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7040-4Published: 08 November 2010
Series ISSN: 2198-0756
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0764
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques