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Great talk tonight by Owen on the webinar. As someone who mostly observes things in the solar system, it’s easy to forget about these little beauties.
What books do you recommend to learn more about planetary nebula and get some ideas of some planetary nebula to look for outside of the Messier catalogue.
Hi James, the list I would have is
Webb Society Deep Sky Observers Handbook Vol 2
Night Sky Observers Guide Volume 4
Hynes Planetary Nebulae
Wallace – Visual Observations of Planetary Nebulae – available from Webb Soc
Hartung – Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes.
Cosmic Butterflies – Sun Kwok
Eicher – Deep Sky Observing with Small telescopes
Historical
Burnhams
Webb Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
Smyth – Bedford Catalogue
Deep Sky Wonders – Houston
Could not recommend
Planetary Nebulae and how to Observe Them – too many errors.
Following Owens excellent talk last night here are links to a book and app I referred to in Q&A.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitotechnology.StarWalk2Free&hl=en_GB
I noted the many references to Spectroscopy !
Clear skies,
Jack
Hello James,
I agree with Owen’s list and don’t think there are any other books I’d add. Many past editions of The Deep Sky Observer (the Webb Society in-house journal) will be found to contain articles on planetaries so it’s well worth joining Webb! Also, if you use the Uranometria star atlas then the associated Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria (Willmann-Bell) gives useful short summaries of planetaries appearing in the atlas.
Hope this helps, Stewart
Owen’s list is pretty comprehensive ( as we would expect). My only addition(s) would be the Stephen James O’Meara series from Cambridge. “The Secret Deep” and “Hidden Treasures“ have expansive entries on PNs. The first volume on the Messier objects is not really needed and the second ( the C……… objects) has a few. Some may be irritated by the rather idiosyncratic nicknames on offer but the meat of the info is good.
Yes I had forgotten the O’Meara series and there is some good information in them. Also in the Annals of the Deep Sky series from Willmann-Bell there is extensive coverage of some planetary nebulae, as well as many other kinds of deep sky object.
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