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Paul_R
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Re: After Messier
08/17/08 11:34 AM
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I can give you one good reason why... that way an amateur would have it all in one place... all of Burnham's wonderful prose and insights, combined with updated, accurate information.
It would save having to shuffle around to different sources or be forever wondering... "Gee, is this part correct? Is that?"
Maybe the trick is to go about this the other way... take a modern guidebook and add in Burnham's reflections.
For example, the Night Sky Observer's Guide is a wonderful compendium, but is too large for use in the field, and too dry for my tastes. I wish that they would put out a small, 1 volume, ringed version of it, featuring only the best and brightest objects. Add in Burnham's reflections and you'd have something that would make for great reading at the scope and on the couch!
Or, intermingle a mini-NSOG with Walter Scott Houston's observing comments.
Or update Kenneth Glynn Jones's Messier book, which is great for guiding the observer to take a second and third look at the object and has the benefit of being accessible with descriptions of what a mere mortal could see as opposed to others who observe under the darkest Hawaiian skies with the best eyes on the planet. (No names, please!  ) Of course, one would want that expanded with the best NGC, too.
I agree with Tony, visual observing will be with us for a long time...
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