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[desertstars]

I sound like a broken record... I have that one, but have not read it - yet.

I have so many unread books (of the paper variety) that I finally made a spreadsheet inventory to avoid accidentally repurchasing something.

 

We won't talk about the amount of fiction I have waiting in my Kindle Oasis...

[Mike Swan]

This is a book I have just pre-ordered - "Attention is Discovery". Contacted by Harvard Plate Stacks about this forthcoming publication on the life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

 

 

The publication date is the 17th of September (at the moment), and price is about $35, depending where you buy it from: MIT Press Bookstore, Penguin Random House, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop.org, Indiebound, Indigo or Books a Million.

 

Hardcover – 256 pages – 8” x 10" - with 200 colour illustrations.

 

It might be an interesting read. I normally buy books for reference purposes.

[BrentKnight]

Yes it does, Mike. Thanks for the heads up...

[obrazell]

I hope you read the blurb about this book Mike. It looks like a new ager one.

[BrentKnight]

I hope you read the blurb about this book Mike. It looks like a new ager one.

The author is principally an artist.  Nothing wrong with an artist writing a book about a person they admire.  It will be interesting to see if this book is more about Leavitt than Von Mertens though.

[KidOrion]

My recent haul.

 

 

 

Nearby Galaxies Atlas (Tully, Fisher)

Double Stars for Small Telescopes (Haas)

Atlas of the Moon (Rukl)

The Modern Moon: A Personal View (Wood)

The Abell Planetary Observer's Guide (Huey)

Hickson Group Observer's Guide (Huey)

Observing the Arp Peculiar Galaxies (Huey)

Deep-Sky Wonders (Houston)

S & T's Field Map of the Moon

The Millennium Star Atlas (softcover)

The Great Atlas of the Sky (Brych)

 

And the best thing about it all was the price: $0.00!

[BrentKnight]

My recent haul.




Nearby Galaxies Atlas (Tully, Fisher)
Double Stars for Small Telescopes (Haas)
Atlas of the Moon (Rukl)
The Modern Moon: A Personal View (Wood)
The Abell Planetary Observer's Guide (Huey)
Hickson Group Observer's Guide (Huey)
Observing the Arp Peculiar Galaxies (Huey)
Deep-Sky Wonders (Houston)
S & T's Field Map of the Moon
The Millennium Star Atlas (softcover)
The Great Atlas of the Sky (Brych)

And the best thing about it all was the price: $0.00!

Looks like they are in good hands...

[Alex_V]

 

And the best thing about it all was the price: $0.00!

WOW! How so?

[KidOrion]

WOW! How so?

A fellow club member was donating his books and equipment to the club for anyone who wanted them.

 

Picked up a nice observing chair, too.

Edited by KidOrion, 05 August 2024 - 11:25 AM.

[WillR]

My recent haul.

 

 

 

 

Nearby Galaxies Atlas (Tully, Fisher)

Double Stars for Small Telescopes (Haas)

Atlas of the Moon (Rukl)

The Modern Moon: A Personal View (Wood)

The Abell Planetary Observer's Guide (Huey)

Hickson Group Observer's Guide (Huey)

Observing the Arp Peculiar Galaxies (Huey)

Deep-Sky Wonders (Houston)

S & T's Field Map of the Moon

The Millennium Star Atlas (softcover)

The Great Atlas of the Sky (Brych)

 

And the best thing about it all was the price: $0.00!

And I thought my recent haul of a similar number and quantity for a dollar each was a good deal!  

[Alex_V]

By Sky King recommendation: Tycho and Kepler, used but as new.

I have "Stars and Clusters" by CPG. In my opinion it is a classic in the line of "The Milky Way" by Boks, and must have.

So I wanted to know about her life.

 

 

 

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[scottinash]

Recent acquisitions from the local used bookstore. 

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[pugliano]

By Sky King recommendation: Tycho and Kepler, used but as new.

I have "Stars and Clusters" by CPG. In my opinion it is a classic in the line of "The Milky Way" by Boks, and must have.

So I wanted to know about her life.

That biography looks interesting. Thanks!

[Jbond]

Recently I finished reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel (I think she is a really fine writer) which is about the women who worked in the Harvard Observatory in the late nineteenth century and into the 20th century. I found it fascinating. I wasn't aware of the Stars and Clusters book by CPG so I ordered a copy from ABE. Thanks for the tip Alex!

[WillR]

Recently I finished reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel (I think she is a really fine writer) which is about the women who worked in the Harvard Observatory in the late nineteenth century and into the 20th century. I found it fascinating. I wasn't aware of the Stars and Clusters book by CPG so I ordered a copy from ABE. Thanks for the tip Alex!

Agreed, love her writing. I have also read Galileo's Daughter and Longitude, both great. Working my way through her work.

 

https://www.davasobel.com/books

[scottinash]

Picked up a copy of the following while traveling. A short and simple chronological coverage of astronomical discoveries from early1600’s up to around 2007. 

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[Chen Sir]

Received today. Paid on eBay about one and a half month ago. The seller packed it very carefully. I got it with a large parcel.

[Chen Sir]

The atlas is attached with a catalog.

 

The pages have yellowed, resulting in not so bright color.

 

 

[Chen Sir]

Its scale is so big that beyond my estimate.

[Chen Sir]

There is an handwriting on the upper right of the 1st page of the catalog.

 

Anyone know this man?

Edited by Chen Sir, 12 August 2024 - 02:24 AM.

[BrentKnight]

I love that atlas for its colors and for the way it depicts dark nebulae.  There's no other atlas out there that does it quite the same...

[Jbond]

It is my favourite Atlas. I have looked at the Sky Atlas 2000.0, and while I like it, I don't think it improves on, or matches, what Becvar did. The colour usage, star colours, and of course, as Brent stated, the Dark Nebulae (which many atlases ignore). and He didn't have the benefit of computers and fancy software, just a Marvel of Art and Science. 

[BrentKnight]

The atlas is attached with a catalog.

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The pages have yellowed, resulting in not so bright color.

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I've never seen the catalog for the atlas.  Just wondering if it includes data for some of the objects not labeled in the atlas?  For example, the LDN catalog didn't exist when the atlas was created, but Barnard's atlas was out, but I don't believe any of them are labeled.

[Jbond]

I have Atlas Coeli II (1964), which is a 2nd, revised edition "which comes close to the contents of the 4th edition of the Atlas Coeli". Some of the changes include replacing the Harvard Spectral System of the HD Catalogue with the Mt. Wilson system "which contains the physical characteristics of the stars". There does not appear to be information on DN's (it has info on Planetary and Bright Diffuse Nebulae), but there is quite a bit of information in other respects; "As a new feature there is a detailed list of bright stars in order to facilitate looking up every star designated by a number or letter, and a section on the cosmic radio sources drawn also in the Atlas. Auxiliary tables facilitate the looking up of constellations in the Atlas, the identification of all stars according to their proper names, the determination of distances of cosmic bodies based on parallaxes, the mutual transformation of various distance systems, the computation of integral magnitudes of binaries from the magnitudes of the components, and vice versa, the computation of the magnitude of the other component, the determination of precise co-ordinates of the bodies for any epoch besides the equinox in the Atlas, as well as the change of the co-ordinates for the equinoxes of 1900.0 and 2000.0 The tables of annual precession in right ascension and declination were considerably extended and a new table was added containing the distance modulus and the absolute magnitudes of the stars." 

 

Whew! enough said... 

[BrentKnight]

Thanks!