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Can you remember being impressed by a clear starry sky? Look at the Milky Way through binoculars and it will reveal its many hundreds of thousands of stars, double stars, stellar clusters, and nebulae. If you are a new observer, it is not that easy to find your way in this swarm of stars, but this atlas tries to make it as easy as possible. So now it is not just experienced amateurs that can enjoy looking at the heavens.
Two additional observing aids are recommended. The first is a planisphere, where one can dial in the time and day in order to see which constellations are visible and where they are in the sky. The second is an astronomical yearbook listing the current positions of the planets and all important phenomena. So, let us begin our journey around the night sky, and see what the universe can reveal to us!
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Sky Atlas 2000.0 by Wil Tirion. Cambridge University Press and Sky Publishing Corporation, 1981. This large-format atlas with 43,000 stars to visual magnitude 8.0 plus 2,500 deep-sky objects is the ideal supplement for the advanced observer.
Sky Catalogue 2000.0 (2 vols.) edited by Alan Hirshfeld and Roger W. Sinnott. Cambridge University Press and Sky Publishing Corporation, 1982 (Vol. 1), 1985 (Vol. 2). Data and notes on nearly all of the stars and objects of Sky Atlas 2000.0 are given in this catalog for the advanced observer.
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Karkoschka, E. (2007). Explanatory Notes. In: The Observer’s Sky Atlas. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48539-3_1
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