Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Volume 3While there are many books on stars there is only one "Celestial Handbook." Now completely revised through 1977, this unique and necessary reference is available once again to guide amateur and advanced astronomers in their knowledge and enjoyment of the stars. |
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Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe ..., Volume 3 Robert Burnham No preview available - 1978 |
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0TH TYPE SUMMARY 9 relfix absolute magnitude actual luminosity Admiral Smyth annual proper motion appears Beta binary bright star brightest Catalogue Cepheid computed distance DESCRIPTIVE NOTES Cont'd Diam diameter dist inc DIST PA YR DOUBLE AND MULTIPLE double star Ecl.bin edge—on fainter field galactic GALAXIES NGC Gamma Hyades Irr Spect LIST OF DOUBLE LIST OF STAR Lowell Observatory luminosity MAGS NOTES RA mass Messier miles per second Milky MULTIPLE STARS Cont'd NAME DIST nebulosity NGC 0TH TYPE Nova object observed orbit pair parsecs period Persei Pleiades Position proper motion RA & DEC radial velocity relfix Sagittarius Scorpii Scorpius second in approach second in recession Semi—reg shows an annual spect A0 spect B9 spect F5 spect GO spectral type spectrum spiral STAR CLUSTERS stars mags SUMMARY DESCRIPTION RA Tauri TYPE SUMMARY DESCRIPTION Ursae Majoris VARIABLE STARS Virgo YR MAGS NOTES Zeta