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Originally Posted by astroron
THE ARP ATLAS OF PECULIAR GALAXIES( A Chronicle and Observers Guide)
The story and info in this book is brilliant.  |
This is also my current reading. The story of Arp and his fellow outsiders is a fascinating poser on how/whether to fund science that differs from the mainstream consensus and is approached very well by the authors. I just wish that Arp had done more observing of southern hemisphere galaxies when he did the atlas - there a quite a few to look at, but I'd like more! I reckon that this would probably provide even more grist to the mills of imagers than to a strictly visual observer like myself, as so many of the galaxies are fairly faint. Still, it will give me some targets for quite a while!