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Sky Catalogue 2000.0: Volume 2, Galaxies, Double and Variable Stars, and Star Clusters: Stars to Visual Magnitude 2000.0

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I bought this book because I was looking for a reference for all the double stars and deep sky objects shown in SkyAtlas 2000.0 charts that I could not find listed or old coordinates used in Burnham's Celestial Handbook made difficult to tell which is which. This is the one. For every object I am looking for data, this reference shows the mag, size, seperation. For galaxies it also lists the brightness, which is usefull and will help you to understand why you have spent endless nights searching for a mag 9.5 galaxy only to discover it's brightness is only mag 10.5 because it's light is spread over such a wide area. This is not a star chart format book, it is a data reference listed in order of RA for double stars and in order of NGC # for most everything else. There is a notes column that will cross reference the M objects, but you cannot look them up unless you have the NGC #. It's easy really, if you have a good set of charts that you are starting from. If you want to know all about the objects by constellation, get the three books that make up the set of Burnham's. Even though they are 1950 coordianates, the will teach you more than you ever thought you could know about the sky. Use this as a current data reference to fill in the blind spots.