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Burnham's Celestial Handbook is an ambitious three volume encyclopedia that detail the visual contents of the constellations. It does not simply focus on stars and their position. It has entries for stars and their brightness and spectral type, multiple stars, nebulae, variable stars, clusters and galaxies. The brightest stars are discussed in detail: their ancient names, histories and scientific histories. Many entries are complete with finding charts. Burnham's Handbook is a very useful addition to the amateur and professional astronomer's library for planning observation and astro-photography. Although it is excellent, the Burnham's Celestial Handbooks are somewhat dated. At almost 30 years old, it could use a make-over but are still useful for basic observations of visual magnitude objects.Read full review
Excellent star hopping! Fun to observe certain stars in their pretty colors and then look them up and find out how far away and how large they are, also history, for example I learned the other night about Antares after I thought I spied what looked a little like Mars...Turns out the Ancient Greeks thought so too, Ant-Ares ie 'Rival of Mars'. So fun!
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