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The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas Axel Mellinger (Central Michigan University)

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas By Axel Mellinger (Central Michigan University)

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas by Axel Mellinger (Central Michigan University)


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Summary

Providing a mosaic of the entire sky, this unique atlas is unparalleled in detail and completeness, making it indispensable for visual observers and astrophotographers. Each double-page spread shows large-scale photographic images with corresponding charts highlighting and naming over 1500 deep-sky objects and 2500 stars.

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas Summary

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas by Axel Mellinger (Central Michigan University)

Using the latest methods in digital photography and image processing, The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas presents the whole sky through large-scale photographic images with corresponding charts. Each double-page spread shows a section of the night sky and is accompanied by an inverted chart highlighting and naming double stars, variable stars, open clusters, galactic and planetary nebulae, globular clusters and galaxies. The 82 large-scale charts, with a scale of 1 Degrees per cm, identify over 1500 deep-sky objects and 2500 stars. Providing a giant mosaic of the entire sky, this unique atlas is unparalleled in detail and completeness, making it indispensable for visual observers and astrophotographers.

The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas Reviews

'Book of the month: this is a wonderful companion to a conventional atlas, as well as a superb coffee table book.' BBC Sky at Night Magazine
'... should prove a valuable reference to the advanced-amateur community.' The Observatory
'... the most beautiful star atlas of modern times ... What a perfect tool for cloudy-night star gazing! And a fine reference book for the historian.' Journal for the History of Astronomy

About Axel Mellinger (Central Michigan University)

Axel Mellinger is an Assistant Professor at Central Michigan University. He is an accomplished astrophotographer and his wide-field mosaics of the night sky are used in planetariums around the world. Ronald Stoyan is editor-in-chief of Interstellarum, one of Germany's main astronomy magazines. Founding director of the German deep sky organization Fachgruppe Deep-Sky, he has authored and co-authored six books on practical astronomy.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. User's guide; 2. How the atlas was compiled; 3. 82 charts of the entire sky; 4. Index of labelled objects.

Additional information

GOR004679370
9781107013469
1107013461
The Cambridge Photographic Star Atlas by Axel Mellinger (Central Michigan University)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2011-09-20
186
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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