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desertstars
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The Search for the Nebulae by Kenneth Glyn Jones...
Anyone familiar with this book? It was published in the mid '70s.
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Tom W.
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chexmix
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I am not, but found a link to a short review here:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978IrAJ...13..210D
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John Flannery
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Hi guys,
I've a copy on the bookshelf at home. A slim book but a very comprehensive round-up of deep-sky objects known up to the time Messier produced his catalog. I think the book evolved from a series of articles in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. I can't remember if Hoderina's (spelling?) discoveries are excluded from KGJ's book but will check that over the weekend.
Sorry I've dropped off the forum for a while ... post-college exams recovery time!
Will do up a more detailed overview of the book over the weekend.
All the best,
John
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chexmix
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Quote:
Sorry I've dropped off the forum for a while ... post-college exams recovery time!
Hope all went well ...
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(2) Frontally-placed visual organs, incl. lens, vitreous/aqueous humors, assorted rods, cones.
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desertstars
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What I'm most curious to know is whether this is a history of the discovery of objects, or a book about the objects themselves.
John: taking exams or grading them?
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Tom W.
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Ralph, the All-Purpose 102mm Refractor
Under the Desert Stars
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John Flannery
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Hi all,
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you about the KGJ book. Tom, I was taking exams ... 2nd year of an I.T. degree part-time. All went well thankfully and the course resumes in September.
The ADS abstract linked to above is a nice in-depth review by Maart de Groot and I probably have only a few additions to it.
KGJ's book is a chronological list of the discoverers of deep-sky objects and the nebulous patches they catalogued. A brief biographical sketch is given for each individual along with the list of their discoveries. Following on these lists are a more detailed discussion of whether the object was genuine or not, along with cross-referencing to earlier works. The catalog of Giovanni Batista Hodierna is omitted as his work was not known at the time of publication of "The Search for the Nebulae".
The book is extremely useful for anyone interested in the history of astronomy and complements the SEDS web page on "The Discovery of the Deep-Sky Objects" at http://seds.org/messier/Xtra/history/deepskyd.html
To quote the usefulness of the book, I think it was the September 2006 issue of "Sky and Telescope" that Fred Schaaf discussed a nebulous spot near Gamma Sagittae. He commented that he had never come across a mention of this fuzzy patch of the Milky Way in print before. I did find it listed in Kenneth Glynn Jones' book however; Edmond Halley, William Derham, and others catalogued this object previously. Derham lists it as being "In the Western Border of Sobieski's Shield".
All the best,
John
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desertstars
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Congrats on getting through exams, and doing so successfully.
Thanks for the synopsis. I'm waiting for the copy owned by the university library here to be returned by the current borrower.
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