Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky

Visual Astronomy of the Deep Sky

Roger N. Clark

Language: English

Pages: 368

ISBN: 0521361559

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This handbook for beginner as well as advanced amateur astronomers, attempts to cover the most important galaxies and nebulas that telescope users observe. The core of the book is a visual atlas of deep sky objects. Drawings and photographs on the same scale are presented to aid identification.

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Brightest spectral lines (colors) emission nebulae are listed in Table 3.3. The atom that emits the radiation is listed, fol­ lowed by a Roman numeral that indicates its ionization state. ( I is un-ionized, I I means the atom is missing one electron, I I I means two electrons are missing, and so on.) A forbidden line is not really forbidden to happen; it j ust cannot be observed in labor- appear better. If city lights emitted only a few wavelengths, they too might be filtered from the observer's.

Across and tilted 55° from edge-on. It is probably only about 700 000 ligh t-years fr? m M3 1 , which w?uld appear three times bIgger from a planet m M33 than from Earth. M33 is about the same distance from our galaxy as M3 1 or possibly a little closer. It was discovered by Messier on Au­ gust 25, 1 764, and today is ?ften called the Triangulum Galaxy or the Pmwheel. � � 76 77 V I S U A L ASTRONOMY OF T H E D E E P S KY A V I S U A L ATLAS O F D E E P - S K Y O BJ E C T S ------• • ----.

Diameter, though visually when high in the sky it appears about 30 arc­ minutes across. East of the center are two U-shaped strings of stars with the Us connected at their bot­ toms. Farther east, and above and below the double U, are two strings of stars that extend farther eastward still. The southernmost is an arc about 3.5 arc-minutes long. In the accom­ panying drawing, only a few of the brightest stars are in their geometrically correct posi­ tions . Plotting thousands of stars by eye is.

Comes from its ongoing collision with interstellar matter, a process known as shock excitation. 218 - A V I S U A L ATLAS OF D E E P- S KY O BJ EC T S Visual. The Veil Nebula is a p :ized object eur astronomers and IS sure to be . arnOng amat medlUm to large telescopes at any for t ge r a t a . (N rthern Hemisphere) summer star party. N C 6960 and 6992-5 are arcs each with a tot al m agnitude of about �. NGC 6960 has a le ng th of about �O arc-mlllutes, an average of..6 arc-mlllutes,. and a.

With larger telescopes, there has been some controversy over whether the dark center is visible. Since the surface brightness is low, many observing guides recommend very low powers, and this is probably why observers fail to detect the dark center. Through the 8-inch under good skies at a magnification of 1 1 7 x , the Helix appeared as a ring of uneven brightness. The north and south portions of the ring were strongest. The west side was very faint, sometimes giving the nebula the appearance of.

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