Deep Sky Objects The Best and Brightest from Four Decades of Comet Chasing

Name: Deep Sky Objects The Best and Brightest from Four Decades of Comet Chasing
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ISBN: 9781591023616

ISBN-10: 1591023610

ISBN-13: 9781591023616

Edition: 2005

Authors: David H. Levy, Stephen James O'Meara

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The codiscoverer of the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet (and of twenty others) take amateur sky-watchers on a fascinating journey into deep space. Complete with photos.

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 11/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.98" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

David H Levy is an astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, which collided with Jupiter in 1994.



Foreword




Letting the sky come to you



Getting excited about the deep sky



An observing guide to the catalog



Interesting stars - distances : from earth to hundreds of light-years away



Open star clusters - distances : hundreds to thousands of light-years away



Clouds of dust and gas - distances : thousands of light-years away



Nebulae at the end of a star's life - distances : thousands of light-years away



The galactic center - distance : 26,100 light-years away



Globular clusters - distances : tens of thousands to more than a hundred thousand light-years away



Farewell to the Milky Way : the closest galaxies - distances : two to four million light-years away



Where space is filled with galaxies - distances : four to sixty million light-years away



Fainter and farther - distances : sixty to three hundred million light-years away



Of space, time, and dreams - distances : hundreds of millions to seven billion light-years away



David Levy's catalog of comet masqueraders and other objects


Deep sky object atlas