Double Stars For Small Telescopes Book
Item #51467
Double Stars for Small Telescopes features an in-depth catalog of 2,101 of the most interesting double or multiple stars bright enough to be seen in amateur telescopes. Includes details such as name, brightness, and separation distance.
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- This book includes an introduction to some of the most challenging night-sky objects - double stars
- Features an in-depth catalog of 2,101 double or multiple stars whose primary is magnitude 8 or brighter
- Every entry contains the location of each stellar set (listed alphabetically by constellation), its name, the brightness of every star, the separation of the stars from each other and more
- Also includes descriptive comments by the author and other double-star observers that convey the beauty of many of these colorful pairs
- Double your viewing pleasure with this great astronomy reference book
Double stars are among the best-kept secrets in nature. Yet even in a small scope will reveal that hundreds of bright stars are actually double or multiple suns. When fainter stars are included, tens of thousands turn out to be double. All the entries in Double Stars for Small Telescopes are considered by the author to be the most attractive and interesting of the more then 102,000 pairs listed in the Washington Double Star Catalog, the world's principal database of double- and multiple-star information.
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