Offers comprehensive coverage of the numerous celestial objects outside our solar system

From 1946 to 1994, Sky & Telescope magazine featured a column called Deep-Sky Wonders, in which amateur astronomer Walter Scott "Scotty" Houston captured the wonder and delight of exploring the farthest reaches of the deep sky. In this book, Sky & Telescope contributing editor Stephen James O'Meara presents a month-by-month selection of Scotty's columns along with insightful observations and warm recollections of his time with Scotty. More than a field guide, Deep Sky Wonders is the work of a man who was a major influence on the development of amateur astronomy for nearly half a century.

Timeless, comprehensive coverage of telescopes, mirrors, lenses, mountings, telescope drives, micrometers, spectroscopes, more. ". . . highly recommended for very serious nonprofessional astronomers." — A Guide to the Literature of Astronomy. 189 illustrations. Reprint of 1971 edition.

This guide is divided into two sections. The first, Discovering the Universe,xplains our changing understanding of earth's place in the universe androvides an up-to-the-minute guide to astronomy today. It describes the mainelestial bodies and explores the big questions raised by our evolvingnderstanding of the universe.he second section, A Guide to Celestial Objects, is a fielduide to the night sky. It includes hundreds of maps and photographs, withections on the sun, moon and planets, stars, nebulas and galaxies, as wells monthly star charts and sky tours of both northern and southernemispheres.

Volume I of a comprehensive three-part guide to celestial objects outside our solar system ranges from Andromeda to Cetus. Features coordinates, classifications, physical descriptions, hundreds of visual aids. 1977 edition.