Just received a copy of the special issue from Astronomy magazine af
Atlas Of The Stars. At US$14.95 inc delivery it's fantastic value for this 100 page Atlas.
24 Double page colour star maps
100 Spectacular Images
1000 DSO's
45000 Stars plotted down to mag 8.0
Location maps include Dwarf Galaxies in Fornax..Sculptor..Tucana..Aquarius and many more.
The Fornax Cluster of Galaxies..Stephan's Quintet..Cats Paw Nebula.. My Cn 18 Planetary Nebula.. and Shapely 1 just to mention a few. There are many many more objects other than the Messier NGC and IC lists.
There have been many DSO's that I have had trouble finding on an easy to follow chart on the web or a hard copy book.
Everything I have ever needed to locate is in this Atlas
I can highly recommend it to anyone looking for such a comprehensive Atlas IMO it's worth a lot more than US$14.95
Check it out on this link
www.astronomy.com There's also a good write up on it in the May 2006 issue of Astronomy magazine .. page 90
Barb