{"product_id":"9780387853567","title":"Observing the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope: In the Footsteps of a Great Observer","description":"\u003cp\u003eObserving the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope contains descriptions and photographs of the 103 Messier objects, with instructions on how to find them without a computerized telescope or even setting circles. The photographs show how the objects appear through a 127mm Maksutov (and other instruments, where applicable). The visual appearance of a Messier object is often very different from what can be imaged with the same telescope, and a special feature of this book is that it shows what you can see with a small telescope. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt will also contain binocular descriptions of some objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMessier published the final version of his catalog in 1781 (it contains 103 different objects), a catalog so good that it is still in common use today, well over two centuries later. In making a catalog of all the 'fixed' deep-sky objects that observers might confuse with comets, Messier had succeeded in listing all the major interesting deep-sky objects that today are targets for amateur astronomers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMessier's telescope (thought to be a 4-inch) was, by today's amateur standards, small. It also had rather poor optics by modern standards. Thus - and despite the fact that he was a master observer - all the things Messier saw can be found and observed by any observer using a commercial 127 mm (5-inch) telescope. \u003ci\u003eObserving the Messier Objects with a Small Telescope\u003c\/i\u003e lets the reader follow in Messier's footsteps by observing the Messier objects more or less as the great man saw them himself!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027793297648,"sku":"9780387853567","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780387853567_p0.jpg?v=1763695777","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780387853567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}