The Caldwell Objects and How to Observe Them

• Main Author: Mobberley, Martin. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Astronomers' Observing Guides,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0326-6

There have been only a handful of famous deep sky "catalogs," including Charles Messiers, which was the first and remains the most famous. Messier was a comet hunter, and in the late 1700s he published a list of 109 objects in the sky that were not comets. In December 1995, Sky & Tele...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Sir Patrick Moore, Observer Extraordinaire
• The Caldwell Objects
• How to Visually Observe the Caldwell Objects
• How to Observe the Caldwell Objects Digitally
• Caldwell Resources
• Index.