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He described visually radial banding in the rings of saturn years before it was proven with the cassini probe
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With these few exceptions the book was quite sufficient at the telescope in the field
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The author organized the list into 12 months and 7 observing nights per month
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Preparing for an observing session thus meant simply not forgetting the book
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One word of advice to the visually challenged some of the herschel objects are very faint a large dobsonian mounted newtonian telescope of 12 or larger equipped with quality eyepieces will bring out the resolution and details that you might expect to see from the photographs in the book
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For who is accustomed to lavishly laidout omearas other guides the deepsky companions well this is not it
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Instead what you have here is a very clearly laidout plan to tackle the herschel 400 night by night month by month short descriptions to what there is to see and the difficulty of the object a description of the the nightly starhop to bag them and a smallish picture of the object
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Short chapters on gear observing sites how to observe and what to expect when observing these objectsbook breaks down the 400 objects by season
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Book is meant to be used at the telescope
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