Deep-Sky Companions: Southern Gems
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.
- 120 southern deep-sky objects covered in detail with 42 additional objects, giving sky gazers a fresh new list of deep-sky objects to observe
- Detailed instructions on how best to find and observe the objects
- Detailed information includes object's history and up-to-date astrophysical information, helping stargazers, teachers and researchers better understand the objects being observed
Reviews & endorsements
"Here is an exceptional deep-sky armchair and field book for amateur astronomers. Not only do you get an interesting selection of deep-sky objects, but the added bonus of well-researched, in-depth background information for each object too … This book certainly has something for everyone."
The Observatory
Product details
April 2013Hardback
9781107015012
450 pages
260 × 185 × 28 mm
1.27kg
204 b/w illus. 114 maps
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- 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.