Exploring the Southern Sky
A Pictorial Atlas from the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Published on 16. September 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 274 pages
978-3-642-64877-9 (ISBN)
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
164
89 farbige Abbildungen, 164 s/w Abbildungen
89 Illustrations, color; 164 Illustrations, black and white; VI, 274 p. 253 illus., 89 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 30 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-642-64877-9 (9783642648779)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-61588-7
Schweitzer Classification
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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
09/1987
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.