Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas by Tirion, Rappaport and Remaklus


Uranometria 2000.0, Vol. 1 The Northern Hemisphere to -6, Tirion/Rappaport/Remaklus, Hardcover ($49.95)	Uranometria 2000.0, Vol. 2 The Southern Hemisphere to +6, Tirion/Rappaport/Remaklus, Hardcover ($49.95)	Uranometria 2000.0, Vol. 3 Deep Sky Field Guide, Cragin/Bonnano, Hardcover ($59.95)

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About Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Atlas and the Companion Deep Sky Field Guide

Over 30,000 non-stellar objects, more than three times the number of any other atlas.

25,895 galaxies (Details)
671 galaxy clusters (Details)
1,617 open clusters, including those in the Magellanic Clouds (Details)
170 globular clusters, including both Milky Way and Magellanic Cloud objects (Details)
14 star clouds (Details)
377 bright nebulae (Details)
367 dark nebulae (Details)
1,144 planetary nebulae (Details)
260 radio sources (Details)
35 X-ray sources(Details)

280,035 stars to 9.75 magnitude which is about what you will see in a 50mm finder scope. Stars are continously tapered to create a more realistic perspective (Details).

220 double page, (18 x 12 inches) charts equally divided (with a generous overlap) between Volume 1 and 2 at a scale of 1.85 cm per degree of declination. (Click on map for full size image.)

In 26 areas of heavy congestion, close-up charts are provided at 2 or 3 times normal scale with a stellar limiting magnitude approximating 11. (Click on map for full size image.)

Uranometria 2000.0's "Close-up Charts" by Volume
Volume 1	Volume 2
North American Nebula/Pelican Nebula	M11/Scutum Star Cloud*
Gamma Cygni Region	Virgo Galaxy Cluster*
Galaxy Clusters Abell 2197/2199	Galaxy Cluster Abell 194*
Perseus Cluster, Abell 426	Trifid Nebula/Lagoon Nebula
Galaxy Cluster Abell 779	Galaxy Clustr Abell 3574
Galaxy Cluster Abell 262	Hydra I Cluster, Abell 1060
Galaxy Clusters in Andromeda/Pisces	M6, Butterfly Cluster/M7
Coma Cluster, Abell 1656	Galaxy Cluster in Hydra/Centaurus
Hercules Galaxy Cluster, A 2151	Zeta Scorpii Region
Galaxy Clustes in Coma Berenices/Leo	Centaurus Cluster, Abell 3526
Galaxy Cluster Abell 1367	Large Magellanic Cloud (two page spread)
M45, Pleiades	Tarantula Nebula
Virgo/ Coma Galaxy Cluster	Small Magellanic Cloud
M11/ Scutum Star Cloud*
Virgo Galaxy Cluster*
Galaxy Cluster Abell 194*	* denotes charts shared by both volumes

4 page magnitude 5.5 "Index" atlas keyed to declination page tabs. (Click on map for full size image.)

22 page magnitude 6.5 star maps keyed to Uranometria 2000.0'scharts. (Click on map for full size image.)

Objects are indexed by Common Names, Star Names, Bayer Stars, Messier Objects, and NGC/IC Objects in Volumes 1 and 2 and all 30,000+ non-stellar objects are indexed in Volume 3. Know the name but not the position? No problem, these indexs make it a snap to find.

Acetate overlays, including field-of-view and Telrad finder (Volume 2 only). This by itself is a $20.00 value — and they securely tuck into a special inside back cover pocket.

The Deep Sky Field Guide answers these questions:

Just what kind of galaxy am I looking at?
How may stars are in that cluster?
What is the opacity of that dark nebula?
Is that bright nebula emision or reflective?
and, much, much more.

Uranometria 2000.0 Deep Sky Field Guide expands and enhances the Uranometrial 2000.0 charts by providing precise data as to location, size, orientation, magnitude, type and much more on non-stellar objects, makin your time out under the stars far more productive.

Serious observers know that the more they know about an object the better their observing experience. An atlas can give you postion, relative size and possibly a rough idea of its shape but that might not be enough to locate it.

Take galaxies for example. A galaxy might be quite large but you could have difficulty in locating it if its surface brightness is really dim. Or perhaps is is edge-on— even bright ones like this are sometimes hard to find. To get around these problems we created the Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.0.

Almost 90% of the objects have accompanying notes. This data is provided for each map and by object type, and is fully indexed (more than 30,000 entries). This volume is a must-have for the serious observer. The below two-page spread shows the data that matches Map 94 shown above.

Where did the name Uranometria come from?
To the ancient Greeks, Urania was the Muse of the Heavens, and uranos was the word for the sky. In 1603, when Johann Bayer published his epochal atlas he named it Uranometria, and it became to celestial mapmaking what the Gutenberg Bible was to printing. For its era, Uranometria set an unprecedented and highly-advanced scientific, graphic and artistic standard for star charts. Nearly 400 years later, in 1987 we published to universal world acclaim Uranometria 2000.0 which along with the advent of inexpensive modern telescopes revolutionized deep sky observing.

During the 1990s we began the process that has culminated in a greatly expanded second edition. Telescopes were getting bigger, amateurs were imaging the sky with super-sensitive CCD cameras, and a new deep-sky atlas was needed. The data upon which to build this atas had to be better than anthing on the shelf.

Emil Bonanno created software to allow us to visually inspect the position, size and orientation of deep sky objects against the Digitized Sky Survey and where necessary, correct and flawlessy record the data. Using Bonanno's software over a period of several years, Murray Cragin created a unified databse of more than 30,000 deep sky objects. Even though Cragin started with the very best professional data available literally tens of thousands of corrections, large and small, were made. Never before has a large-scale atlas been based on such accurate data. Next, Will Remaklus and Wil Tirion took that data and created superb maps of unsurpassed accuracy and beauty. The result is that when you point your telescope to a Uranometria 2000.0 object, you can be assured it will be there, and at the size and orientation plotted. No other large-scale atlas has this attention to detail, nor anywhere near as many objects—by a factor of 3! That's 20,000+ more objects.