This atlas is a comprehensive illustration of the morphology of normal, nearby galaxies and how they are classified in the revised Hubble system developed in the 1950s by Gérard de Vaucouleurs, one of the twentieth century's leading astronomers. Using an image database of over 500 galaxies, the de Vaucouleurs classification is made more accessible and understandable so that astronomy researchers, students, and amateurs can apply the system with ease. Because much has been learned about the physical basis of galaxy morphology since de Vaucouleurs published his revision, the atlas contains a comprehensive review of the recent literature, outlining how different morphological features are interpreted. The de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies is not only a pictorial atlas, but it is an up-to-date reference on our understanding of the physical processes that underlie galaxy morphology. Additional materials will be available at www.cambridge.org/9780521820486.
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"Although numerous catalogs have been published that describe the de Vaucouleurs system, no photo extensive atlas has been available to illustrate the de Vaucouleurs system until now."
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"This book provides a comprehensive and detailed study of the morphology of normal and nearby galaxies as classified by de Vaucouleurs. It brings the subject up to date with the latest thoughts on how to organize galaxies and includes images of more than 500 star systems grouped appropriately. ... I recommend this book to both professional galaxy researchers and amateurs who love to hunt for the 'faint fuzzies' and want to learn more about what they are observing through the eyepiece." - Robert A. Garfinkle, Sky & Telescope
"...an excellent reference manual for professionals and the serious amateur astronomer...This superb up-to-date informative refernece work is one that should be in the possession of any galaxy enthusiast and, of course, observatory technical libraries." --Astronomy Now
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"This book provides a comprehensive and detailed study of the morphology of normal and nearby galaxies as classified by de Vaucouleurs. It brings the subject up to date with the latest thoughts on how to organize galaxies and includes images of more than 500 star systems grouped appropriately. ... I recommend this book to both professional galaxy researchers and amateurs who love to hunt for the 'faint fuzzies' and want to learn more about what they are observing through the eyepiece." - Robert A. Garfinkle, Sky & Telescope
"...an excellent reference manual for professionals and the serious amateur astronomer...This superb up-to-date informative refernece work is one that should be in the possession of any galaxy enthusiast and, of course, observatory technical libraries." --Astronomy Now
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This atlas provides a comprehensive illustration of the morphology of galaxies and how they are classified in the revised Hubble system developed by Gérard de Vaucouleurs. This volume makes his classification more accessible and more understandable so that modern astronomy researchers, students, and amateurs can apply the system with ease.
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Groundbreaking Photos Illustrating de Vaucouleurs System,
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An important part of modern astronomy is the understanding of galaxies. And with so many (estimated at 40 billion) it is helpful to classify galaxies into types that can then be studied. In 1926 Hubble developed a classification system that has seen wide acceptance. In 1959 de Vaucouleurs published an extension to the Hubble system that gives greater emphasis to specific details not covered in the original Hubble system, some of which give more accurate recognition to details that have a bearing on the way galaxies evolve. This has become the most used Hubble derivative.
Although numerous catalogs have been published that describe the de Vaucouleurs system, no photo extensive atlas has been available to illustrate the de Vaucouleurs system until now. This book has some 500 photographs of galaxies taken in blue light and modified to give a consistent brightness level. In addition it is an up to date reference on our understanding of the physical processes that underlie galaxy morphology. The three authors all studied under or worked with de Vaucouleurs and have used his classification system for many years.
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The title pretty much sums up my review. The book is just as it is described by the authors in the Preface and Introduction. It is unique among galaxy books and so really needs to be in the library of any galaxy researcher, amateur or professional.
The only real problem is one I've seen many times among Cambridge publications - their books often exhibit deplorable photo printing quality and this book is no exception. One can see that the originals have good quality but the result as Cambridge published them is a uniformly very low contrast, with no real darks or lights. The background sky around the galaxies is often a muddy gray where it should be quite dark, and many photos show some kind of hard-to-describe effect that almost looks like a printing defect - a rather 'splotchy', spotty appearance that is just not excusable from what should be a very fine publisher. I now shy away from most all Cambridge books but this one is still worth having if you can find it at a good price as I did, from a reputable seller at a fraction of the retail price ($171 as of August 2010).
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inner pseudoring, outer pseudoring, leading dust lanes, color index map, strong inner ring, diffuse spiral arms, light patchiness, bright nuclear ring, outer arms form, main outer arms, ansae type, wrapped spiral arms, enhanced blue colors, flocculent spiral structure, boxy zone, deprojected image, foreshortened bar, index map shows, intrinsic axis ratio, ring major axis, general patchiness, underline notation, magellanic spiral, bar ellipticity, small nuclear ring Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virgo Cluster, Atlas Units, Hubble Atlas, Milky Way, The Sbc, Local Group, Gil de Paz, Magellanic Clouds, Maffei Group, Southern Sky Survey, Hubble Heritage, Allan Sandage, Carnegie Atlas, Hercules Cluster, Sculptor Group, Vaucouleurs Atlas, Coma Cluster, Reference Catalogues, Hoag's Object, Digitized Sky Survey, Spitzer Space Telescope, Palomar Sky Survey New!
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inner pseudoring, outer pseudoring, leading dust lanes, color index map, strong inner ring, diffuse spiral arms, light patchiness, bright nuclear ring, outer arms form, main outer arms, ansae type, wrapped spiral arms, enhanced blue colors, flocculent spiral structure, boxy zone, deprojected image, foreshortened bar, index map shows, intrinsic axis ratio, ring major axis, general patchiness, underline notation, magellanic spiral, bar ellipticity, small nuclear ring Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Virgo Cluster, Atlas Units, Hubble Atlas, Milky Way, The Sbc, Local Group, Gil de Paz, Magellanic Clouds, Maffei Group, Southern Sky Survey, Hubble Heritage, Allan Sandage, Carnegie Atlas, Hercules Cluster, Sculptor Group, Vaucouleurs Atlas, Coma Cluster, Reference Catalogues, Hoag's Object, Digitized Sky Survey, Spitzer Space Telescope, Palomar Sky Survey New!
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