Observer's Sky Atlas
Erich Karkoschka Firefly Books £29.95 • HB
Observer’s Sky Atlas, written by astronomer Erich Karkoschka, has been an invaluable resource for both beginners and more experienced astronomers since 1990. First published in black and white, this indispensable night-sky atlas is now presented in its fourth edition: full-colour, expanded and revised using data from the ESA Gaia satellite. Crammed into its 144 pages are 500 deep-sky objects to observe, star charts and tables detailing lunar phases, planetary oppositions and fast-rotating binary stars up to the year 2060.
This new edition includes 61 new star charts and 532 images of galaxies, stars and nebulae - 415 of which are in full colour. Each object in the book can
