Visual Observations of Planetary Nebulae
Kent Wallace
A fantastic book, written by Kent Wallace and described by some as the Planetary Observing bible. With over 1000 PNs listed and described, of which 400 were observed with 8" Celestron SCT, and more with observations using a 20" f/5 reflector plus galactic, Magellanic Clouds and proto planetary Nebulae plus planetary Nebula mimics.
Price is £28 (before P&P).
Open Cluster Atlas: Volume 1
Mike Swan
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 (before P&P).
Open Cluster Atlas: Volume 2
Mike Swan
Produced by one of our Members who used to work for the Ordnance Survey. This atlas is the second of two volumes, and completes the coverage of the sky from RA 12 hours 00 minutes to 23 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. The final part of an excellent and probably unique atlas.
Price is £12 (before P&P).
Webb Deep–Sky Society Colour Star Atlas
Mike Swan
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).
There is a Black and White Altas option available for £5 (before P&P) which is the same but obviously without the benefit of colour!
Faith Jordan
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).
The Bennett Catalogue
Jenni Kay and Magda Streicher
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 £5 (before P&P).
Double Star Charts
Mike Swan
A set of five A3 size charts covering the whole sky with selected double stars highlighted for you to chase.
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.
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Printed on standard 135gsm paper £5 (before P&P)
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Printed on tearproof and waterproof synthetic paper £10 (before P&P)
Both are supplied in a 330mm cardboard tube.
Mike Ropelewski
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 (before P&P).
Mike Ropelewski
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 (before P&P).
Wolfgang Steinicke
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 £6.50 (before P&P).
Monograph Series
Monograph No. 1 - The "Non-Existent" Star Clusters of the RNGC (1993) written by Brent A. Archinal.
Price is £2 (before P&P).