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Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope - In the Footsteps of a Great Observer (Paperback, 2012)
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Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope - In the Footsteps of a Great Observer (Paperback, 2012)
Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope contains
descriptions and photographs of the 103 Messier objects, with
instructions on how to find them without a computerized telescope
or even setting circles. The photographs show how the objects
appear through a 127mm Maksutov (and other instruments, where
applicable). The visual appearance of a Messier object is often
very different from what can be imaged with the same telescope, and
a special feature of this book is that it shows what you can see
with a small telescope. It will also contain binocular descriptions
of some objects. Messier published the final version of his catalog
in 1781 (it contains 103 different objects), a catalog so good that
it is still in common use today, well over two centuries later. In
making a catalog of all the 'fixed' deep-sky objects that observers
might confuse with comets, Messier had succeeded in listing all the
major interesting deep-sky objects that today are targets for
amateur astronomers. Messier's telescope (thought to be a 4-inch)
was, by today's amateur standards, small. It also had rather poor
optics by modern standards. Thus - and despite the fact that he was
a master observer - all the things Messier saw can be found and
observed by any observer using a commercial 127 mm (5-inch)
telescope. Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope
lets the reader follow in Messier's footsteps by observing the
Messier objects more or less as the great man saw them himself!
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