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Now expanded and in full color, and useful to 2060!

This tremendous new edition of a classic book (previously published only in black-and-white) contains star charts and pictures, for all those who observe the night sky with unaided eyes, binoculars or telescopes. It is equally useful for beginners and experienced old hands at astronomy.

A legend among hobby astronomers, this entirely revised and updated edition has new celestial maps in full color, up-to-date data from the Gaia spacecraft and unique comparison images of most visible celestial objects. Sixty-one all-new star charts are good through 2060, and there are 532 pictures of stars, galaxies and nebulae, 415 of them in full color.

Very detailed position figures help the astronomer navigate the charts and accurately pinpoint objects for viewing - and knowing what you're seeing.

The hobby astronomer can use it to find star clusters, gaseous nebulae and galaxies throughout the night sky. Quick orientation is guaranteed, and intermediate astronomers can really enjoy the night sky for hours and hours by knowing where to locate the objects of their interest.

From the Publisher

Observer's Sky Atlas: The 500 Best Deep-Sky Objects With Charts and Images

An indispensable classic guide for anyone using binoculars or a small telescope to search the sky.

Now expanded and in full color, and useful to 2060!

Each deep-sky object discussed has a star chart, a finder chart, a description, catalog data, an image for visual observations and a photo, all on the same double page spread. In addition, this new edition contains predictions for the separation of binaries all the way to 2060 and a new section that includes images and charts for observing the Milky Way

Star Charts

This sky atlas includes catalog data on the page facing the star charts. This way, much information can be given with just one label in the charts, leaving the charts uncluttered.

Constellations

The constellations with their area in gray and blue and their lines. The brightened stripe at bottom marks the region that remains invisible from mid-northern latitudes.

Magnitude

Table 3 can suggest how to find suitable objects for an observing session. For example, an observer with binoculars on a field far from city lights and with no significant moonlight will look for dice symbols with more than three filled dots. Experienced observers may wish to check their limits of visibility 3 or surface brightness 13/'

The sky from the planet of the closest star, Proxima Centauri. Nearby stars appear displaced. Brilliant Rigil Kentaurus shines at magnitude –7. The sun is the eighth brightest star in the sky, located in Cassiopeia. Sirius and Betelgeuse appear as a close pair.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Firefly Books; Fourth Edition, Updated and in Full Color (March 10, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0228104106
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0228104100
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.44 x 9.5 inches
Reviewer: soupwell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the most well organized and thought out reference books I've ever encountered
Review: It's absolutely gorgeous too. The stunning photographs inspire me to get out and aim my scope at something amazing.Very well laid out for allowing you to plan viewing sessions and locate your targets in the night sky.The author even built the color scheme of the star charts to aid in viewing under an astronomer's red light.I wish every product I purchased was designed this thoughtfully.One downside- now I've got to plan a trip to the Southern hemisphere because this star atlas covers some spectacular objects that can't be viewed from home!

Reviewer: Dy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pictures say it all
Review: Really nice book for a good price. There are nicer books of course, but they are way out of my acceptable price range. This is a nice, informative book, with all (and more)of the information I need. Great pictures and it works just like my moon atlas, reference the map in the cover and go to the specific page for that object. Hardback and nice smooth pages.

Reviewer: Tino
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: It doesn't get any better than this.
Review: This is an excellent tool for any level astronomer. The very best! a wealth of information. If you read the user info at the beginning of the book you will have no trouble adapting to this type of atlas ... if you can call it a regular atlas. it in much, much more. I would call it a tool of the trade. I use this with the Sky and Telescope pocket edition. I use no others but these two. Hands down the best.

Reviewer: KM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lots of info, very well organized
Review: I've been an amateur astronomer and telescope maker since childhood, and am normally pretty skeptical about night sky observing books, which tend to be pitched at a novice level, and filled with diffuse and general info that I know cold. I received a flyer featuring this and three other books at Stellafane last week, and while I could quickly rule out three of the four, this one seemed worth a preview on Amazon, and what I saw convinced me to give it a try. It arrived yesterday, and I have to say that I am really impressed, and will be using this observing atlas regularly. It has an incredible amount of information, arranged in a clever and highly organized manner. Lumping globulars, open clusters, galaxies, and actual nebulae all together under one "nebula" category is a bit odd, but these are in fact properly sub-categorized by number. It takes a little while to decode the dense info that is served up, but explanatory pages just before the core set of "star charts" do a good job of this, and once you are up to speed on the pattern, you have a lot of info at your disposal. Having this all in a single compact volume makes it more likely to be put to use at the telescope, where more verbose multi-volume approaches stay put on the shelf. I think that the author has done a great job, providing the observing community with a valuable new resource.

Reviewer: Bright Eyes Mom
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good for all
Review: Bought this as a gift for someone. They had told me about an old school star map they bought at Cape Hatters years and years ago. It was spiral, like a notebook, and you could write on it and wipe it off. I looked and looked and could not find it. After reading reviews on probably 100 different books, I selected this as the gift. The gift went over great, we spent hours looking at it upon opening. It’s loaded with info for all. The recipient has been gazing at stars for years, through telescopes and binoculars or just standing out in the dark. Me not so much, I’ve been around telescope probably more than the average person, can point out a few things by eye, but that’s about it. The book was good for both of us, had stuff she understood but broke stuff down to where I could understand. I can see why they say good for all stargazers

Reviewer: Batfire
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Quick concise reference at your finger tips.
Review: I picked this book up 6 months ago and now use it every session of astrophotography. Sure the online spots like stellarium show you the night sky but this book is the goto book if you are looking for the best way to find your targets whether you have a goto scope or manual scope. I have found many of my target objects for the night that the goto couldn't seem to lock on using this atlas. I have had many atlases over the years from Burnham's celestial handbooks to many other sky atlases but never with every bit of information at your finger tips without having to sit there and read 30mins to find what your looking for. I highly recommend the Sky Atlas for finding those elusive objects in the night sky.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good photo's and maps with instructions on how to use it to find the objects you want to find

Reviewer: Alfonso fernandez Sanchez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: El que este escrito en inglés no debería ser un impedimento para su uso. La información está organizada de forma inteligente, resultando muy practica para la observación del cielo.Para los que no están familiarizados con el cielo nocturno lo pueden combinar con un atlas del cielo digital (Stellarium o Cartes du Ciel).Merece la pena.

Reviewer: Chris Jordan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I didn't quite know how to catorgeries this atlas since it's ostensibly about 500 deep sky objects curated by the author, and I already own several atlases and handbooks with far more DSO's...so why would I buy it.Simply put, it is absolutely brilliant.It is idiosincratic and follows none of the usual conventions of astronomy charts and books, but conveys the information in the most incredible graphic fashion.It starts with 17 pages of pertinent information about the construction of the atlas which you need to read in detail to get the most from it.Then follows over 100 pages of all-sky charts, which are not only highly detailed on their own but inlaid with very precise finder charts, detailed images and thumbnail visual images of various DSO's.Finally there is a very comprehensive index of DSO's, star names with magnitude and visual colour, oppositions, meteor showers and even maps of the Milky Way.As said, it is specific to the DSO's described, but also far more than that, I have never come across any book (on any subject) that conveys so much information per square inch of page surface than this.It is quite, quite brilliant, I'm glad I own a copy.

Reviewer: Starman44
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I First bought this Author's 'Observer's Star Atlas' around 25 years ago.I didn't know a single Constellation then.Now I stumble on to the latest greatest book of Erich's and find a new Glossy Updated Version of the same book. There's not many books that can't be improved but this might be one of them.I've now seen all the Northern Constellations and observed Deep Sky objects such as The Veil Nebula through big Telescopes and this book covers them all. I can't wait to get back under clear skies with a Big Refractor and this book! I might even have a go at finding 3C273 The most exotic object visible in amateur telescopes - The 60 M light year distant Quasar is charted in this book once more & I'm so glad it's till here now that I might actually stand a chance of finding it. Superb!

Reviewer: FXF
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The book provides two levels of maps: constellation-wide maps and multiple close-up maps with 1cm=1° for specific objects.It gives multiple data to understand where each object is, what it is, what magnification is needed, and the size. It provides magnitude and magnitude per square minute for nebulae. It often shows between 5 and 10 pictures of the most interesting objects of the constellation, and sometimes much more.This book is fantastic.