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This coffee-table book depicts famous facilities of a southern sky, such as a Magellanic Clouds and a Tarantula Nebula, as good as a shining star cluster Pismis 24, a pleasing NGC 1532-1 span of interacting galaxies and a eager Toby Jug Nebula.

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Amazon Sales Rank: #242948 in Books
Published on: 2011-10-17
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: .90" h x 9.90" w x 11.90" l, 3.00 pounds
Binding: Hardcover
220 pages

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In these pages, a reader can follow a enchanting tale of astronomical inspection in a southern hemisphere, in a complicated partnership of aesthetics, science, and a story of tellurian endeavor. This book is truly a jubilee of southern skies. Jerry Bonnell, Editor - Astronomy Picture of a Day The southern sky became permitted to systematic inspection usually a few centuries ago, after a initial European explorers ventured south of a equator. Modern watching and imaging techniques have given suggested what seems like a new Universe, formerly dark next a horizon, a uninformed astronomical annuity of beauty and believe singly opposite from a northern sky. The authors have crafted a book that brings this dark Universe to all, regardless of plcae or latitude. Treasures of a Southern Sky celebrates a conspicuous beauty and brilliance of a southern sky in difference and with world-class imagery. In part, a minute anthology of low sky wonders south of a astronomical equator, this book also celebrates a tellurian story of southern astronomy with an enchanting and minute story of pivotal contributors to southern sky exploration. The concomitant content provides a reader with intriguing contribution and useful information about a featured objects. The volume is organised by southern hemisphere deteriorate and brings to a printed page many of a many provocative and pleasing astronomical images of a time, many in imitation for a initial time. The collection of imagery covers a full operation of low sky astronomical objects, including a informed and iconic as good as those that are some-more problematic though no reduction intriguing. Masterful, state of a art veteran and pledge astrophotography highlights a authors' delicately comparison low sky "treasures." DUST JACKET: The beauty and brilliance of a southern night sky is legendary. From southern latitudes a excellent globular clusters in a sky are manifest to a unaided eye, as are a nearest galaxies, a Magellanic Clouds. The brightest partial of a Milky Way passes over during a southern winter and a nearest splendid star as good as a mythological asterism famous as a Southern Cross are both understandable via a year. Despite these overwhelming highlights, a southern sky has perceived has perceived reduction courtesy than a northern counterparty, and fewer photographs exist of a obtuse known, nonetheless equally overwhelming and intriguing objects. This visible anthology facilities distinguished minute portraits of a many distinguished to a some-more problematic southern astronomical objects. Carefully comparison world-class images have been fabricated regulating a latest digital methods, divulgence these southern gems in ways never before seen. To yield a context, a cinema constraint a sky in variety of scales, from a far-reaching vistas seen by hobby telescopes to a little fields relayed in masterfully abounding fact by a absolute optics of a largest veteran telescopes, including a Hubbel Space Telescope and ESO's telescopes. The beauty of a night sky is on arrangement in clear tone and gorgeous detail. The display is serve extended by a minute story of southern sky inspection and wholesome content that describes a southern night-sky wonders in ways that are enchanting and non-technical.

About a Author

Robert Gendler is an pledge astrophotographer whose astrophotography has warranted him general acclaim. He was featured in a PBS documentary Seeing in a Dark by Timothy Ferris, who called Gendler "one of a biggest astrophotographers in all of history." Robert is famous among associate astrophotographers as a colonize always exploring ways to pull a accessible record over a limits. He has published dual books on astrophotography. The initial A Year in a Life of a Universe (Voyageur Press, 2006) was published in 4 languages (English, Spanish, Polish, and Greek). His latest astrophotography book Capturing a Stars: Astrophotography by a Masters (Voyageur Press, 2009) highlights a work of a many achieved astronomical imagers in a world. Gendler recieved a Hubble Prize for contributions to astrophotography during a Advanced Imaging Conference during San Jose, California in 2007. Robert lives in Avon, Connecticut with his mother and dual children. He work can be noticed during www.robgendlerastropics.com Lars Lindberg Christensen is an award-winning scholarship communication dilettante who heads a European Southern Observatory preparation and Public Outreach Department, where he is obliged for open overdo and preparation for a VLT, La Silla, for ESO's partial of ALMA, E-ELT and ESA's partial of a Hubble Space Telescope. He performed his Master's Degree in production and astronomy from a University of Copenhagen, Denmark and has some-more than 100 publications to his credit, many of them in renouned scholarship communication and a theory. He has created several books on renouned scholarship and scholarship communication that have seemed in Finnish, Portuguese, Danish, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. Lars is Press Officer for a International Astronomical Union (IAU) and owner of a ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator project, manager of a IAU International Year of Astronomy 2009 Secretariat and a Executive writer and executive of dual astronomy documentaries. David Malin has been concerned in systematic imaging roughly all of his operative life. In a 1960's, he worked for a vast general chemical association in a north of England, where he founded and ran a laboratory that used earthy methods such as microscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques to solve problems in pristine and practical chemistry. The enabling record for might of those techniques during that time was photography. In 1975, he was recruited as minute scientist for a newly consecrated Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in Australia, and incited his courtesy to incomparable and some-more apart things. At a AAT he grown several new minute that led to some poignant astronomical discoveries. The same processes also authorised a origination of some of a initial 3-color images of astronomical objects in 1978, and these photographs have been widely published and used by David Malin and others to try and explain a startling beauty of a objects of a night sky. The addition 3-color routine is now zodiacally used by both pledge and veteran astronomers alike. Only a detector has changed. David is now late though still actively concerned with a AAO. He lives in Sydney with his mother Phillipa, where they suffer their 3 children and countless grandchildren.