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Written by an experienced Deep Sky Observer this 44pp A5 book gives an easy to understand guide on how to get into Deep Sky Observing.
5 sections covers topics such as Equipment, Star Atlases, Techniques, Observing and suggestions for observing programmes.
As the author says the golden rule of deep sky observing is to go out there and have fun!
Price is £5 (before P&P).
My interest in the stars goes all the way back to my childhood and I can clearly recall the fascination those twinkling, silvery lights in the dark southern skies above held for me as a youngster. I became an active amateur astronomer and have, over the years, steadily become more and more involved in advanced participation.
Searching out deep sky objects and sketching them adds a wonderful, interesting world with some exceptional and unique characteristics, and in this book I share all with a great sense of joy and delight.
Price is £26 Members / £28 Non-Members (before P&P).
Produced by one of our Members who used to work for the Ordnance Survey. This atlas is the first of two volumes and covers the sky from RA 0 hours 00 minutes to 11 hours 59 minutes. There are charts of the whole sky, but more importantly, a detailed chart for each of the open clusters down to 16th magnitude. An excellent and probably unique atlas with a PDF sample of the content to download.
Price is £12 Members / £15 Non-Members (before P&P).
Produced by one of our Members who used to work for the Ordnance Survey this atlas has 44 Charts with almost 17,500 stars plotted down to magnitude 7.1. Of these 3,800 are double stars and in addition there are over 1,800 deep sky objects identified.
Price is £15 (before P&P).
Jack Bennett was a very experienced amateur astronomer in Southern Africa and this catalogues lists 152 Deep Sky objects that he compiled as an aid to comet hunting (he discovered 2 comets) Each object is listed with its type, magnitude, size and descriptions by 2 very experienced deep sky observers using telescopes between 8 and 16 inches in aperture.
Price is £8 Members / £8.50 Non-Members (before P&P).
A set of five A3 size charts covering the whole sky with selected double stars highlighted for you to chase. All of the charts are laminated to survive the dew!
Information including magnitude, separation and position angle for each of these doubles is provided on the reverse of each chart.
Please click on either image for a larger view.
Price is £10 for the set of five charts (before P&P).
These books describe some of the brighter double stars to be found. Sketches are included where the field of view is interesting and as an aid to identification. Instruments used range from 10x50 binoculars to 250mm Newtonian reflectors.
Volume 1 covers the northern constellations.
Price is £8.50 Members / £10.00 Non-Members for each volume (before P&P).
These books describe some of the brighter double stars to be found. Sketches are included where the field of view is interesting and as an aid to identification. Instruments used range from 10x50 binoculars to 250mm Newtonian reflectors.
Volume 2 covers those constellations visible from the southern hemisphere.
Price is £5 Members / £6.50 Non-Members (before P&P).
Thousands of variable stars have been discovered over the past 300 years. The great majority are members of our galaxy. In the 20th century some fascinating objects were found, which turned out to be not stars but extragalactic systems, mostly at cosmological distances: galaxies, quasars or BL Lacertae objects.
Price is £5 Members / £6.50 Non-Members for each volume (before P&P).
Late one night in September, after a full night’s observing in Sagittarius, I turned the 8-inch SCT towards the Small Magellanic Cloud, more out of curiosity rather than expecting to see much detail in it. To my surprise I found the SMC to be littered with numerous small hazy glows, all differing in size and brightness, but easy enough to pick out against the bright background glow of the Magellanic Cloud itself.
Price is £5 Members / £6.50 Non-Members for each volume (before P&P).
Monograph No. 1 - The "Non-Existent" Star Clusters of the RNGC (1993) written by Brent A. Archinal.
Price is £2 (before P&P).
