The Colour Atlas of Galaxies

[rogerg (Roger)]

I was looking through my favourite astronomy book last night - The Colour Atlas of Galaxies by James D. Wray. It's a book that I find fascinating, looking over and over the 600+ colour images of galaxies in it.

The book was published in 1988, I was given it by my parents in the early 90's I think. Because of it's age obviously there are better images of galaxies available but I don't know of a better book containing them. Even though the pictures are old they're still fascinating with lots of colour and detail.

Interestingly the image scale looks almost identical to my 12" LX with ST7, and the detail resolved almost identical to my exposures of about 3-5 minutes.

I did a Google on it to see if there was a new edition. Found the only reference to pricing/availability was for the one I have, at US$228+ on Amazon!!

Great book if you can get your hands on it.

I wonder if there is a new equivalent?

Roger.

[Ric]

Sounds like a great book Roger, one for the coffee table and planning the next galaxy imaging run.

Cheers

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I haven't heard of that book before. I wonder if I can order it in through the library?

[leon]

Roger I to have a book "The Invisible Universe" by David Malin, although it dose not have 600 plus images i'm sure it is in the ball park to what you are refering too.

It's a huge book, a really coffee table edition, my wife gave me this book, also in the 90's, and as you said the images are just fantastic.

Thought I would just share that with you.

Leon

[rogerg (Roger)]

Jeanette - You'd have to be very lucky I think. It doesn't seem too common

Leon - Thanks, I will keep an eye out for that, sounds great. The links I've found on the web haven't given me any real idea of it's content, so will need to hunt one down in person.



Roger.

[astroron (Ron)]

The two books by David Malin are to do with the technical side of photography and imaging, they contain lots of images of both galaxies and nebulae, but are not galaxy books persay.
I would also like yo get hold of Colour Atlas of the Galaxies, but I reckon it would fetch a pretty penny and be hard to find