Spoken with all the conviction of one who has never seen an MSA.

Sorry Rick, you're quite wrong. While the stars go fainter and the scale is nice and such, the fact is the symbols in the keys for galaxies, globular clusters etc etc all looks like a glorified Uranometria. The lay out in the most profound sense is just too too close to Uranometria for me to appreciate it the way some people do. I simply no what preceded MSA and I'm not impressed.

I'm a commercial artist Rick. There are any number of avenues they could have taken to make it more of an original statement. I'll never forget my first thumbing through one.
It was jaw dropping for all the wrong reasons a product should be.

Pete

PS: Yes I know the little doodads for double star observers. Its akin to throwing hubcaps on someone elses car and calling it new. Its an uninspired "lift" of a previous product and there isnt simply enough for me to EVER make that purchase.