View of the Universe

Name: View of the Universe
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ISBN: 9780521444774

ISBN-10: 0521444772

ISBN-13: 9780521444774

Edition: 1993

Authors: David Malin

List price: $70.00

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This lavishly illustrated photographic exploration of the universe will delight everyone intrigued by the night sky. This is the finest collection of color photographs of star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae ever published. Working with the world's most sophisticated telescopes and his own revolutionary techniques, world renowned astronomical photographer David Malin captures distant worlds and phenomena in their astonishing natural colors. These unique pictures are accompanied by nontechnical captions and a lucid text accessible and inspiring to the general reader as well as to astronomers and photographers. The foremost astronomical photographer in the world, David Malin is the discoverer…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/26/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 284
Size: 10.00" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.388



Introduction and acknowledgements



From microscope to telescope



The rise of astronomy and photography



Things to see and do in the dark



The Milky Way and the colours of the stars



Astronomical reflections



Where stars are born



Mass loss and the life of stars



Galaxies


Appendices


Index