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Originally Posted by MuntiNZ
Yeah but if you could get one or the other which one is best?   |
The second edition revised by Malin and Frew is the one you want for practical
purposes. The co-ordinates are J2000.0 rather than B1950.0 for a start.
As I recently mentioned on another thread, Andrew Murrell recently sold a copy
last October at the IceInSpace Astrocamp at Lostock. It languished there all
morning with no buyers and was in mint condition and bargain priced. A few of
us had to encourage the eventual buyer that it indeed it was a good book and worth
owning. Andrew may have mentioned to me that this particular copy may have
been Number 1, as when they arrived from the printers, Andrew was there
with David Frew when he opened the first carton of them and it was the first book
from the carton to be pulled out.
If anyone is interested in an observing list from Hartungs, it can be downloaded
in both CSV and XLS formats suitable for loading into a spreadsheet from the
Argo Navis User's Group here -
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/a...s%20/Hartungs/
(You need to join the group using your yahoo login to download files, which is free).
These I believe were compiled by Dave Moorehouse in New Zealand for use with the Argo Navis
but they are in human-readable format and can be printed or used on a laptop screen as well.
Other Hartung lists in the Argo Navis User's Group include this one which in XLS format and sorted by magnitude -
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/UFakS7g...ith%20rank.xls
and this one contributed by Peter Marples which contains 578 objects from Hartungs, mainly non-stellar -
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/UFakS16...20/Hartung.txt
, I would have to say that the plastic cover was put on by the library for protection
