An Anthology of Visual Double Stars

by Robert W Argyle, Andrew James, Mike Swan, et al.

Modern telescopes of even modest aperture can show thousands of double stars. Many are faint and unremarkable but hundreds are worth searching out. Veteran double-star observer Bob Argyle and his co-authors take a close-up look at their selection of 175 of the night sky's most interesting double and multiple stars. The history of each system is laid out from the original discovery to what we know at the present time about the stars. Wide-field finder...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316629252
• ISBN13: 9781316629253
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 3.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 10.7"