Back to search results

Southern gems

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Book

In Southern Gems, Stephen James O'Meara makes a detour beneath the southern skies, presenting a fresh list of 120 deep-sky objects for southern hemisphere stargazers to observe. Showcasing many exceptional objects catalogued by the pioneering observer James Dunlop, known as the 'Messier of the southern skies', all are visible through small- to moderate-sized telescopes or binoculars under dark skies. The list features some of the blackest dark nebulae, icy blue planetary nebulae and magnificent galaxies of all types. Each object is accompanied by beautiful photographs and sketches, original finder charts, visual histories and up-to-date astrophysical background information. Whether you live in the southern hemisphere or are just visiting, this new Deep-Sky Companion will make a perfect observing partner, whatever your background. There is no other southern sky guide like it on the market.

Title Southern gems / Stephen James O'Meara. [electronic resource] [Deep-sky companions ]
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Creation Date 2013
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Preface
1. How to use this book
2. The southern gems
Appendix A. Southern gems: basic data
Appendix B. Forty-two additional southern gems in Dunlop's catalogue
Appendix C.A brief history of early telescopic exploration of the far-southern skies
Appendix D. Photo credits
The southern gems checklist
Index
Wide-field star charts.
Extent 1 online resource (xiii, 466 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010720709205171
MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

More on this subject

The southern sky guide / David Ellyard and Wil Tirion. [electronic resource]
Book
Turn left at Orion : a hundred night sky objects to see in a small telescope-- and how to find them / Guy Consolmagno and Dan M. Davis ; illustrations by Karen Kotash Sepp, Anne Drogin, and Mary Lynn Skirvin. [electronic resource]
Book

This may also interest you

Franz Kafka on His Deathbed

Franz Kafka on His Deathbed

In the early 20th century, tuberculosis was a fairly common disease. At that point in time, an effective treatment had yet to be developed. The disease mainly spread among populations that suffered from nutritional deficiencies. War could often lead to significant parts of the population suffering

To the article on our blog
Space Left Behind: Ilan Ramon’s Diary Has Arrived

Space Left Behind: Ilan Ramon’s Diary Has Arrived

Ground Control: “And Columbia, Houston, we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last…” Commander Rick Husband: “Roger buh…” That utterance by mission commander Rick Husband was the last communication sent to Ground Control in Houston, Texas from t

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject