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Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas

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Manufacturer: Sky Publishing
List Price: $19.95
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DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 520
EAN: 9781931559317
ISBN: 1931559317
Label: Sky Publishing
Manufacturer: Sky Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 110
Publication Date: 2006-03-30
Publisher: Sky Publishing
Studio: Sky Publishing


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• NightWatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
• Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them
• Binocular Highlights: 99 Celestial Sights for Binocular Users (Sky & Telescope Stargazing)
• The Night Sky 30°-40° (Large; North Latitude)
• The Backyard Astronomer's Guide


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Just for grab it and go
Comment: First of all, thanks to Sky & Telescope team for this book. I've been reading reviews for different atlases for almost a week before I bought it. But full of doubts. The reason? The price! Mmm... those 14 bucks sounds like it would not be a telescope class atlas.

Anyway, I was looking for portability. And I mean portability, not pocket size or all-in-4-folders stuff. So, I purchase it and start waiting.

And then it comes.

First, I love the nice colours and publishing quality. Even the smell... But is not a mere fact of aesthetically confort, so I grab it and go for a star party and open the package just under the stars.

Well, not bad at all. I found almost everything just using the telrad-like add in the front cover and making some visits to the last pages. In a word: "perfecto" for those 14 dollars!

But human nature is to be always asking for more, so I missed some features:

- An small table or resume about globular clusters and galaxies at the beginning of each "RA block". I'm not talking about a full in depth list, but maybe some (up to 10th magnitude list, for instance)

- Better or harder cover. It is too fragile!

- A small list of typical meteor radiant position (might be a one page list)

Anyway, is a 5 stars choice.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Sky's the Limit!
Comment: This atlas was recommended by a man who teaches Astronomy 101 in northeast Ohio. It is easy to use and helps me to recognize stars in the sky throughout the year. It's not expensive either!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent atlas for most stargazers
Comment: The form factor is about right, the paper is of good quality and relatively dew resistant. The amount of detail is enough for most amateurs with a small telescope.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't leave for the Observatory without it!
Comment: Roger has written a very useful book, both for it's size as well as it's content. The atlas provides a comprehensive positional summary of interesting objects in the sky. I highly recommend this book as an excellent starting point that will get you where you are going in the night skies!

Francis J. O'Reilly

Customer Rating:
Summary: Perfect for me
Comment: I've been thrilled with this little atlas because it is small, attractive, easy-to-use, and includes just enough detail.

I did a Messier marathon last year under a dark sky (Figueroa Mountain, CA) and found over 90 objects with my binoculars (12x60) using only my list and this atlas for reference. I was astonished that I could see objects dimmer than 10.0 magnitude in my binoculars, but this atlas made it so much easier.

I planned to sleep through most of the Virgo cluster, but I kept finding more and more objects that I hadn't expected to be able to see! When you know exactly where an object is in relation to neighboring stars, it will often appear when using averted vision and the binoculars are moving slightly. I even found a couple 11th-mag galaxies! This atlas made it possible - great buy.

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