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The Observer’s Sky Atlas

With 50 Star Charts Covering the Entire Sky

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Erich Karkoschka

    1. Nellingerstr. 45c, Stuttgart 75, Fed. Rep. of Germany

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N1-VI
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  2. Explanatory Notes

    • Erich Karkoschka
    Pages 1-21

  3. Star Charts and Catalog

    • Erich Karkoschka
    Pages 23-119

  4. Tables

    • Erich Karkoschka
    Pages 120-125

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 126-131
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About this book

Can you remember being impressed by a c1ear starry sky? Look at the Milky Way through binoculars and it will reveal its many hundreds of thousands of stars, double stars, stellar clusters, and nebulae. If you are a new ob server, it is not that easy to find your way in this swarm of stars, but this atlas tries to make it as easy as possible. So now it is not just experienced amateurs that can enjoy looking at the heavens. Two additional observing aids are recommended. The first is a plani­ sphere, where one can dial in the time and day in order to see which constellations are visible and where they are in the sky. The second is an astronomical yearbook. It lists the current positions of the planets and all important phenomena. So, let us begin our journey around the night sky, and see what the universe can reveal to us! Facing page, top: The constellation Cygnus (Swan) in the midst of the northern Milky Way. The photograph gives an impression of the uncountable stars in our Milky Way. This becomes more conspicuous when you sweep through Cygnus with binoculars. Under a very dark sky, one can try to find the North America Nebula, Pelican Nebula, and Veil Nebula (see p. 47). These are difficult nebulae and are only barely visible on this photograph as weIl.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nellingerstr. 45c, Stuttgart 75, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Erich Karkoschka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Observer’s Sky Atlas

  • Book Subtitle: With 50 Star Charts Covering the Entire Sky

  • Authors: Erich Karkoschka

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10392-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-10392-0Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 131

  • Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Original German edition published by Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co., KOSMOS Verlag, Stuttgart 1988

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Geophysics/Geodesy

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