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galactic perspective." Much of the pleasure of Sky Vistas is an astronomy guidebook for both astronomical observing comes from "looking" with active and "armchair" observers. First, it is a practical observing guide to the deep-sky objects the mind as well as the eye. Thus Sky Vistas describes how the naked-eye appearance of the that are visible in low-power, wide-field instruments MilkyWay itselfrelates to the spiral structure of our like binoculars and richest-field telescopes (RFTs). Galaxy in the vicinity of the Sun, how the familiar Second, it is a reader's guide to how the familiar bright nebulae and open clusters are distributed bright nebulae and star clusters along the Milky Way "trace" the spiral arms in the Sun's vicinity, along our Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms in the neighborhood of the Sun, and to how the brightest and how the eyepiece appearance ofindividual open clusters relates to their age and (as a consequence) galaxies are distributed with respect to our Milky to where they are with respect to the spiral arms. Way Galaxy and to the Local Galaxy Group of And galaxies are discussed in their actual physical which our Milky Way is a member. Not many observing guides have been written groupings, and their eyepiece appearances are expressly for binoculars and small richest-field tele related to their true structures.
Contents
1 Introduction.- I The Stars.- II Stellar Groups.- III Nebulae.- IV Galaxies.- IV.6 Galaxy Groups and Galaxy Clusters.- 2 Open Clusters.- I Summer Constellations.- II Autumn Constellations.- III Winter Constellations.- IV Open Clusters of Spring.- 3 The Milky Way and its Bright Nebulae.- I The Star Clouds of Sagittarius and Scutum.- II The Aquila Inter-arm Gap and the Great Rift.- III The Star Clouds and Nebulae of Cygnus.- IV The Associations of Cepheus and Lacerta.- V The Cassiopeia Window.- VI The Milky Way toward the Rim of the Galaxy.- VII The Orion Association.- 4 Galaxies and Galaxy Groups.- I The Local Group.- II Nearby Galaxy Groups.- III Galaxy Groups in Leo.- IV The Coma-Virgo Galaxy Cluster.- IV Other Galaxies of the Spring Skies.- VI Looking out of the Local Supercluster.- 5 Stars, Globulars, Planetaries.- I Stars.- II Globular Clusters.- III Planetary Nebulae.- Sources.- General Index.- Open Clusters Index.- Bright Nebulae Index.- Stellar Associations Index.- Galaxies Index.- The Authors.
