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This chapter is about getting to know the sky and making the most of the naked eye in observations, studying the weather and transparency of the sky. It covers brightness of nebulae, magnitude scales and the importance of dark sky sites and the use of small observatories.
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Griffiths, M. (2016). Observing Techniques and Tools. In: Observing Nebulae. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32884-3_3
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