Exploring the Southern Sky

A Guide to this Book.- 1 The Universe and its Galaxies.- 1.1 A Look into Fornax.- 1.2 An Ordered Sequence of Galaxies.- 1.3 The Local Group.- 1.4 The Sculptor Group.- 1.5 Multiple Galaxies.- 1.6 Clusters of Galaxies.- 1.7 Peculiar Galaxies.- 2 The Milky Way Galaxy.- 2.1 Panorama of the Milky Way.- 2.2 The Milky Way from Orion to Puppis.- 2.3 The Milky Way from Vela to Carina.- 2.4 The Milky Way from Crux to Norma.- 2.5 The Milky Way from Scorpius to Scutum.- 2.6 Milky Way Objects at High Galactic Latitude.- 3 Minor Bodies in the Solar System.- 3.1 Meteoroids and Minor Planets.- 3.2 Comets.- 4 The Southern Sky and ESO.- 4.1 A European Organization for Astronomy.- 4.2 The La Silla Observatory.- 4.3 The Headquarters in Garching.- 4.4 The Next Generation of Telescopes.- Plate Data.- Index of Objects.