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Old 21-06-2020, 09:07 PM
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This book is the PN bible

Visual Observations of Planetary Nebulae

Kent Wallace

https://www.webbdeepsky.com/publications/books/

I observed with Kent in California in 2006



Received my copy on Friday - indeed, it is the bible for PNs! I was sort of hoping there might be a few pictures included, but there's nary a photo to be seen anywhere in its nearly 500 pages. There also appears to be no rhyme or reason in terms of how the PNs are catalogued, so you need to utilise the index at the back if you have a particular object you want to look up, otherwise it's just 800+ descriptions/notations one after the other. That being said, if you can't find the PN you want in this book, you're very hard to please. The author also found a lot of them with a 20" scope, so there is a challenge in that respect also. I wonder if there's a SkySafari list for all these.....
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