Also plotted are many hundreds of telescopic galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae. Each of 80 charts covers 20x30 degrees of sky, and it is limited to declination of 58. My life story ive been interested in astronomy since a school trip to the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Telescopes pocket sky atlas will have you exploring the heavens in no time. Pocket sky atlas vs cambridge star atlas getting started. There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas so handy to take on trips and use at the telescope, thanks to its compact size, convenient spiralbound design, and easyto read labels. Sinnott, 9781940038711, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The atlas is divided into 8 sections each section covers 3h or right ascension, and each of these sections is divided into 10 individual pages with the full width of the section given in twopage spreads. The pocket sky atlas provides a more usable view of large sections of the sky, and even with my sky atlas 2000 and uranometria, i sometimes still pull the pocket sky atlas out for a quick idea of what might be worth taking a look at from time to time even in my 14 inch.
There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas so handy to take on trips and use at the telescope, thanks to its compact size, convenient spiralbound design. They have raised the bar again with their new pocket sky atlas jumbo. But we are continuing to make the corrected pages, as well as some adjoining ones, available as free downloads so that potential buyers can see what they. Books i bought this on a recommendation from a couple of fellow astronomers and i am so glad i listened to them. The original pocket sky atlas, introduced in 2006, has proven wildly popular for use with portable telescopes. Pocket sky atlas is easy to take on trips and use at the telescope thanks to its compact size, convenient foldback spiral binding, and easytoread charts and labels. I also use illustrated guide to astronomical wonders. For planning my nights observing i also use the cambridge star atlas, the cambridge double star atlas and atlas of the night. For me the best sky atlas for backyard astronomers,it has 80 detailed charts with the most interesting targets to observ,classified by right ascension and dates and hours to better observation,has charts of both sky hemispheres and is also excelent for star hopping with the added value that is a relatively small pocket book. But when the first copies rolled off the press and editors took them home to use, it happened to be a clear, newmoon weekend. The star charts are hard to read and you cannot expand at least not on my samsung tablet to read them. There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas so handy.
Worth mentioning that this atlas is made of thick glossy paper which helps to some degree fight dew. There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas thats so handy to take on trips and also easy to read at the telescope thanks to its still userfriendly size, convenient spiralbound design, and easytoread labels. With more room for your own pencil notes and additions as well. Sinnott 2007, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. Psa is designed to be extremely portable while including enough stars and deep sky objects to be useful. So, starting with our famous pocket sky atlas, we enlarged all its 80 charts by 25% and added six more closeup regions for a total of 10. When looking for a good atlas, there are a number of factors to consider, but they all boil down to how easy is it to use ion the field, and does it do the job. Our handiest detailed star atlas, compact and spiralbound. The 80 charts contain more than 30,000 stars to magnitude 7. Pocket sky atlas by roger sinnott 2016, paperback for. Sky telescopes pocket atlas by sinnott roger abebooks. Figured i deserved a free one, given that im the one who first pitched this idea to upper management.
Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Yet its everything youll need in a serious sky atlas until youre an advance practitioner going very deep. Why o why do the kindle editions come out so poorly. Now the bar has been raised with the new pocket sky atlas. We wanted a clear and detailed atlas that was easy to consult at the telescope by red flashlight. They have raised the bar again with their new pocket sky atlas jumbo edition. For me the best sky atlas for backyard astronomers,it has 80 detailed charts with the most interesting targets to observ,classified by right ascension and dates and hours to better observation,has charts of both sky hemispheres and is also excelent for star hopping with the. Pocket sky atlas is easy to take on trips and use at the telescope thanks to its compact size, convenient fold. Read download sky telescopes pocket sky atlas jumbo pdf pdf. However, if you have previously check out this ebook and you are prepared to help make their conclusions convincingly request you to be tied to to go away an overview on our site we can. Now weve raised the bar again with ourpocket sky atlas jumbo edition. Improvements of the second edition of triatlas with regard to the first release and some other features. There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas so handy to take on trips and use at the telescope, thanks to its userfriendly size, convenient spiralbound design, and easytoread labels. Now weve raised the bar again with our pocket sky atlas jumbo edition.
As it happens, the first shipment was just enough for the. Sky telescopes pocket sky atlas by sinnott, roger w. This newly revised edition of the jumbo version covers the whole sky with the same 80 charts, magnified to 2 percent. So do not download the kindle edition until they make some changes to make it. Deep sky hunter is a large, comprehensive atlas a3, 110 maps and the earlier release thesky is an older, lighter version a4, 80 maps. There has never been such a wonderfully detailed atlas so handy to take on trips and use at the telescope, thanks to its userfriendly size. To help people with defective copies, we supplied correct versions of the affected charts as free downloads. My life story ive been interested in astronomy since a school trip to the planetarium when i was 6. The triatlas project mirror, free star charts allans. This 80chart atlas contains more than 30,000 stars to magnitude 7.
Sinnott, 9781940038704, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Free, printable sky maps in pdf format, designed for a practical field use by deep sky observers. Our pocket sky atlas is the handiest and lowestpriced telescopic sky atlas around, while carrying forward our standards for expert design and greatest usability. The pocket sky atlas is a terrific reference to star gazing and finding celestial gifts. Field testing the jumbo pocket sky atlas astro art. The pocket sky atlas plots 30,796 stars to magnitude 7. Here you can find the triatlas star atlas pdf of one of the best sky atlas available for free. Jan 29, 2016 great star atlas really glad i bought it, ive owned the larger sky atlas 2000. Read download sky telescopes pocket sky atlas jumbo pdf.