Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Rilegato

Webb, Thomas William

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ISBN 10: 0266430120 ISBN 13: 9780266430124

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2019

Riassunto

Excerpt from Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Vol. 2 of 2

A well-adjusted equatorial telescope will readily find anything in the following list from the position there given otherwise, recourse must be had to a good globe or map. The larger star-maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge were very carefully compiled and'of much value in their day, notwithstanding a most inconvenient amount of distortion towards the sides and corners; but in this respect, though not as regards the minute stars, they are much inferior to the Atlases of Proctor the smaller of these was specially intended as a companion to the present work, but does not contain the additions made in this im pression.1 The stars, clusters, and nebulae in the following pages are divided into constellations, which are arranged alphabetically: the boundaries of Heis, in his 'atlas Coelestis,'

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0266430120
• ISBN 13: 9780266430124
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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