The Barnard objects then and now
The Barnard Objects have fascinated professional and amateur astronomers for over one hundred years. Many of those objects first imaged by E.E. Barnard on black-and-white photographic plates are now being captured daily in thousands of color astrophotographs. This book tells of Barnards story; descr...
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Foreword
- On Mount Wilson with the Bruce
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- References
- Chapter 2: Nebulae: An Overview
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Diffuse Nebulae
- 2.1 Emission and Reflection Nebulae
- 2.2 Dark Nebulae
- 3 Planetary Nebulae
- 4 Supernova Remnants
- References
- Chapter 3: Astronomical Catalogs: An Overview
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Star Names and Star Catalogues
- 2.1 Bonner Durchmusterung (B.D. or BD)
- 2.2 Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD)
- 2.3 Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD)
- 2.4 Modern Stellar Catalogs
- 2.5 Star Names Today
- 3 General Non-stellar Catalogs
- 3.1 Messier Objects
- 3.2 New General Catalogue (NGC) and Index Catalogues (IC)
- 4 The National Geographic Palomar Sky Survey (POSS, POSS I)
- Southern Sky Survey
- ESO Surveys
- 5 Galaxy Catalogs
- 5.1 Shapley-Ames Catalog (SA)
- 5.2 LEDA
- Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC)
- 5.3 UGC-Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies
- 5.4 Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG)
- 5.5 Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies (MCG)
- VV Galaxies
- 5.6 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (Arp Galaxies)
- 5.7 Abell Catalogue
- 6 Star Cluster Catalogs
- 6.1 A Catalogue of Star Clusters Shown on Franklin-Adams Chart Plates -Melotte Catalogue (Mel)
- 6.2 Collinder Catalogue (Cr)
- 6.3 Lund Catalogue of Open Cluster Data (Lund)
- 6.4 Globular-Cluster Catalog (Arp) and Others
- 7 Planetary Nebulae Catalogs
- 7.1 Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (PK)
- 7.2 Catalog of Planetary Nebulae (Abell)
- 7.3 PLNEBULAE - Galactic Planetary Nebulae Catalog (PN or PNG)
- 8 Emission, Dark, and Reflection Nebulae Catalogs
- 8.1 Catalog of Bright Diffuse Galactic Nebulae (Ced)
- 8.2 Minkowski Emission Nebulae (Mi or M1)
- 8.3 Sharpless Catalogue of HII Regions (SH2 or Sh2)
- 8.4 Gum Nebulae
- RCW Catalog
- 8.5 Van den Berg Catalog of Reflection Nebulae (vdB)
- 8.6 Atlas of Galactic Nebulae (GN)
- 9 Conclusions
- References and General Bibliography
- Chapter 4: Barnard and His Photography
- 1 Barnard the Photographer
- 2 Visual Observing Versus Photography
- 3 Astrophotography - Plates, Prints, Darkroom Techniques, Emulsions
- 4 Barnard's Astrophotography - Comets and the Milky Way
- 5 Barnard and Dark Nebulae
- 6 Barnard's Star
- 7 Honors and Awards
- 8 Astronomical Glass Plate Collections
- References and General Bibliography
- Chapter 5: Visual Observation of the Barnard Objects
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Sky Darkness and the Contrast Illusion
- 1.2 Opacity
- 1.3 Observing Barnard Objects
- 2 Barnard's Observations of Dark Nebulae
- 2.1 The Great Rift of the Milky Way
- 3 Other Observations of Dark Nebulae
- 4 Astronomical League Dark Nebula Observing Program
- 4.1 Naked Eye Objects
- 4.2 Binocular and Telescopic Objects