Wolfgang Steinicke

Gebundenes Buch

Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters

From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue

Beschreibung

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

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 660
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 191mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1542g
• ISBN-13: 9780521192675
• ISBN-10: 0521192676
• Artikelnr.: 29596571