Burnham's Celestial Handbook -- An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Volume 2, Chamaeleon through Orion, Revised and Enlarged Edition

by Robert Burnham Jr.

Book Overview

Chamaeleon Through OrionWhile 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486240649
• ISBN13: 9780486240640
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 652 Pages
• Weight: 2.47 lbs.

Customer Reviews

MUST have

Even if these 3 books are a little bit outdated (1983), it is still in irreplaceable source of information on all the celestials beauties to be seen on an amateur telescope

Undoubtedly helpful

As I told in my previous review (bernardo@esfm.ipn.mx, 1998), Burnham's Handbook continues to be a daily reference for most amateur astronomers because it hasn't been surpassed, even rivalled.We all know that the coordinates it gives are not the current ones. We all know that some of its data is out of date. We all know that its typing is old-fashioned. We all know that its pictures are not digital. But we all also know that it is one of the most useful astronomy sources around.