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Originally Posted by ChrisV
Interesting. What's it like compared to O'Meara's Southern Gems.
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O'Meara' Southern gems has 120 objects 466 pages which includes charts and index, plus about 130 pictures,all in black and white or grey scale
It is also smaller than POSS but thicker.
Pearl of the Southern Sky is nearly 30 cm long 20cm tall but not very thick has 71 objects with 71 colour pictures and 15 colour charts.
Going by the amount of objects in both books, Southern Gems seems more value for money having nearly double the amount of POSS
I have used OMeara's book in the field and find it a very good companion
I have ordered POSS so will be comparing them next week some time.
One thing for both books is to plastic cover them and keep them away from dew.
The author is South African so basically sees what we see here in Australia, O'Meara lives in Hawaii
So maybe doesn't get as good a view of the Southern Sky.
Cheers
