Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgments to the first edition
- Chapter 1 A glimpse into the life of Charles Messier
- Chapter 2 How to observe the Messier objects
- Chapter 3 The making of this book
- Chapter 4 The Messier objects
- Chapter 5 Some thoughts on Charles Messier
- Chapter 6 Twenty spectacular non-Messier objects
- Appendix A Objects Messier could not find
- Appendix B Why didn’t Messier include the Double Cluster in his catalogue?
- Appendix C A quick guide to navigating the Coma–Virgo Cluster
- Appendix D Messier marathons
- Image credits
- Alternate name and object index
Acknowledgments to the first edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgments to the first edition
- Chapter 1 A glimpse into the life of Charles Messier
- Chapter 2 How to observe the Messier objects
- Chapter 3 The making of this book
- Chapter 4 The Messier objects
- Chapter 5 Some thoughts on Charles Messier
- Chapter 6 Twenty spectacular non-Messier objects
- Appendix A Objects Messier could not find
- Appendix B Why didn’t Messier include the Double Cluster in his catalogue?
- Appendix C A quick guide to navigating the Coma–Virgo Cluster
- Appendix D Messier marathons
- Image credits
- Alternate name and object index
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- Deep-Sky Companions: The Messier Objects , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014