Exploring the Southern Sky
A Pictorial Atlas from the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Published on 2. September 1987
Book
Hardback
VI, 274 pages
978-3-540-17735-7 (ISBN)
Description
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary the European Sou- thern Observatory (ESO), is publishing a selection from its photographic treasures of the southern skies: 90 colour and 147 black and white plates have been reproduced. Thirty maps make it easy to locate the objects shown. Part 1 is devoted to extragalactic phenomena. Part 2 deals with our Galaxy. Part 3 contains the results from observations of minor bo- dies in the solar system (asteroids and comets with an em- phasis on the most beautiful Halley's comet photographs). The final part presents the Observatory itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
164 s/w Abbildungen, 89 farbige Abbildungen
164 black & white illustrations, 89 colour illustrations, biography
Weight
1785 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-17735-7 (9783540177357)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-61588-7
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Svend Laustsen | Claus Madsen | Richard M. West
Exploring the Southern Sky
A Pictorial Atlas from the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Book
09/1988
Springer
€85.55
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Content
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.