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I got to know a German fella Ronald Stoyan who is the author of many great astronomy books like the Cambridge Messier one etc last year when he spent 8 months down south and we went on a few observing trips. He would bring this beautiful waterproof atlas he had created with him - far better to use than Uranometria, specifically designed for visual obsessors with 4 to 16 inch telescopes (designating what you can see with 4,8,12 and larger inches). It had just two problems... 1) It was published in German ... 2) It was sold out in the waterproof edition.
Ronald and his publishing company along with Cambridge have now produced the english version of this atlas. It is beautiful, practical and hands down the nicest star atlas I've ever used.
Details here and ordering link here -
http://www.deepskyatlas.com
Having spent some time talking with Ronald about the Atlas I have some idea of how much effort it took to produce it, for example approximately 45 nights down south here to observe and check every object in the LMC alone. It is not a cheap atlas if you get the field edition but I promise you it will be worth every cent for you. Seriously, buy the field edition.
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PS: I have two copies of Uranometria which I will now happily sell - The three volumes including the Deep Sky Catalog Guide and the single volume version.
