Wolfgang Steinicke

Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters

From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 660
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 191mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192675
• ISBN-10: 0521192676
• Artikelnr.: 29596571

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Steinicke, FRAS, is a committee member of the Webb Deep Sky Society and Director of its Nebulae and Clusters section, a core team member of the international New General Catalogue/Index Catalogue Project, Head of the History Section of the Amateur Astronomy Association (VdS), Germany's largest national association of amateur astronomers, and a member of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. He frequently gives conference talks and courses, and contributes to astronomical magazines. This is his fourth book.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. William Herschel's observations and parallel activities
3. John Herschel's Slough observations
4. Discoveries made in parallel with John Herschel's Slough
5. John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope
6. The time after Herschel's observations till Auwers' list of new nebulae
7. Compiling the General Catalogue
8. Dreyer's first catalogue: the supplement to Herschel's General Catalogue
9. Compilation of the New General Catalogue 356
10. The New General Catalogue: publication, analysis and effects
11. Special topics
12. Summary
Appendices
Index.