Steinicke Wolfgang: Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters

Name: Steinicke Wolfgang: Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters
Brand: Cambridge Academic
SKU: 978-0-521-19267-5
Price: 280.00 CHF
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From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue

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Providing the first comprehensive historical study of the New General Catalogue, this book is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing. It covers the people, observatories, instruments and methods involved in nineteenth-century visual deep-sky observing, as well as prominent deep-sky objects.

ISBN: 978-0-521-19267-5

GTIN: 9780521192675

Über den Autor Steinicke Wolfgang

Wolfgang Steinicke, FRAS, is a committee member of the Webb Deep Sky Society and Director of its Nebulae and Clusters section, a core team member of the international New General Catalogue/Index Catalogue Project, Head of the History Section of the Amateur Astronomy Association (VdS), Germany's largest national association of amateur astronomers, and a member of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. He frequently gives conference talks and courses, and contributes to astronomical magazines. This is his fourth book.