The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon write by Don Machholz. This book was released on 2002-10-10. The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Messier Catalogue is a list of one hundred and ten galaxies, star clusters and nebulae, and includes many of the brightest and best-known objects in the sky. Amateur astronomers who find all the objects on the list in one night have successfully completed the Messier Marathon. The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon contains over 90 easy-to-use star maps to guide the observer from one object to the next, and provides tips for a successful night of observing. Don Machholz also tells the story of the eighteenth-century astronomer, Charles Messier, and how he came to compile his extensive catalogue. His complete guide to the Messier Marathon will help the amateur astronomer to observe the Messier Objects throughout the year, using a small telescope or even a pair of binoculars. Don Machholz is an engineer in Auburn, California. Interested in astronomy since childhood, he is a renowned comet hunter, having discovered nine comets that bear his name. He writes articles for local California newspapers and radio stations for special astronomical events. Between 1988 and 2000, Don Machholz was the Comets Recorder for the Association of Lunar and Planetary Recorders.
The Year-round Messier Marathon Field Guide
The Year-round Messier Marathon Field Guide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Year-round Messier Marathon Field Guide write by Harvard C. Pennington. This book was released on 1997. The Year-round Messier Marathon Field Guide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Atlas of the Messier Objects
Atlas of the Messier Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atlas of the Messier Objects write by Ronald Stoyan. This book was released on 2008-10-27. Atlas of the Messier Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 110 star clusters, nebulae and galaxies of Messier's catalog are among the most popular of all the deep sky objects and are beautiful targets for amateur observers of all abilities. This stunning new atlas presents a complete and lively account of all of the Messier objects. Details for each object given include a thoroughly-researched history of its discovery, historical observations and anecdotes, the latest scientific data detailing its astrophysical findings, and clear observational descriptions from naked eye through to large telescopes. In addition, this atlas has some of the world's finest color astrophotos, inverted and labelled photos pointing to hidden details and neighboring objects, as well as historical sketches alongside new deep sky drawings. Quite simply, this is the most far-reaching and beautiful reference on the Messier objects there has ever been, and one that no observer should be without!
The Messier Album
The Messier Album - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Messier Album write by John H. Mallas. This book was released on 1980. The Messier Album available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope
Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope write by Philip Pugh. This book was released on 2011-11-02. Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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!
