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Originally Posted by shane shaw
what edition are they please and what magmnitude stars does it go up to ?
thanks
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Hi Shane,
The copyright says 1997 but no printing date is shown which means this is probably the only edition. I have set out information from Sky & Telescope Publishing below which may help. By the way, these are seriously heavy books, weight wise that is.
Cheers, Steve
Hailed as the definitive reference set, the Millennium Star Atlas features 1,548 sky charts based on the European Space Agency's landmark Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues.
Detailed, comprehensive, and complete, this three-volume set shows more than one million stars, three times as many as any other atlas in print. More than 10,000 of the nearest stars are labeled with their distances in light-years, as determined by the Hipparcos satellite. The charts also include the locations, orientations, and aspect ratios of 8,000 galaxies. The generous angular scale and the faint limiting magnitude, corresponding to the survey limit of the Hipparcos satellite at around 11th magnitude, makes star-hopping to deep-sky objects a breeze.
Product Info:- Three volumes
- Each volume is 9¼ by 13 inches
- Slipcase included
