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-Title: Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies.
-Author:
Antony Cooke.
-Publisher:
Springer Verlag.
-Pages:
10 + 180
-Illustrations:
B/W photos and graphics.
-Language:
English.
-Publication Date:
September 2005.
-ISBN: 1852339012

Front Cover

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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky – star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies – within reach of amateur astronomers. And it isn’t even necessary to image many of these deep-sky objects in order to see them; they are within reach of visual observers using modern techniques and enhancement technology.
The first requirement is truly dark skies; if you are observing from a light-polluted environment you need Tony Cooke’s book, Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs. Given a site with clear, dark night skies everything else follows… this book will provide the reader with everything he needs to know about what to observe, and using some of today’s state-of-the-art technique and commercial equipment, how to get superb views of faint and distant astronomical objects.

(Extracted from the back cover).
 

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GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.
-Foreword.
-Introduction.
-New tools.
-The Dark Sky Site.
-So, what can we expect to see?
-Our Neighbourhood in Space: The Milky Way.
-The Great Beyond.
-Eyes on the Future.
-Appendices.
-Recommended equipment manufacturers.
-Resources.
-Real Time visual astronomy using image intensifiers and data modelling.
-StellaCam II Highlights and Description.
-Index.

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