Exploring the Southern Sky A Pictorial Atlas from the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laustsen, Svend, Madsen, Claus (Author), West, Richard M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1987, 1987
Edition:1st ed. 1987
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • A Guide to this Book
  • 1 The Universe and its Galaxies
  • 1.1 A Look into Fornax
  • 1.2 An Ordered Sequence of Galaxies
  • 1.3 The Local Group
  • 1.4 The Sculptor Group
  • 1.5 Multiple Galaxies
  • 1.6 Clusters of Galaxies
  • 1.7 Peculiar Galaxies
  • 2 The Milky Way Galaxy
  • 2.1 Panorama of the Milky Way
  • 2.2 The Milky Way from Orion to Puppis
  • 2.3 The Milky Way from Vela to Carina
  • 2.4 The Milky Way from Crux to Norma
  • 2.5 The Milky Way from Scorpius to Scutum
  • 2.6 Milky Way Objects at High Galactic Latitude
  • 3 Minor Bodies in the Solar System
  • 3.1 Meteoroids and Minor Planets
  • 3.2 Comets
  • 4 The Southern Sky and ESO
  • 4.1 A European Organization for Astronomy
  • 4.2 The La Silla Observatory
  • 4.3 The Headquarters in Garching
  • 4.4 The Next Generation of Telescopes
  • Plate Data
  • Index of Objects