[AANC Contacts] Fwd: New Star Atlas

[Alan Gould]

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From: arcturussj at aol.com
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:38:43 EDT
Subject: New Star Atlas

[I've had] years of activity in the planetarium field (director at 
Buhl, DuPont, Spitz, etc.). I've also written for The Planetarian in 
the past ("The Role of the Telescope in the Planetarium" being the 
piece that drew the most attention). Additionally, I've served as an 
editor at Sky & Telescope years ago.

I'm writing to let you know that the new, visually-stunning Cambridge 
Double Star Atlas, co-authored by the famed celestial cartographer 
Wil Tirion and myself, has just been released by Cambridge University 
Press (see their web site for details).

[ http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521493437 ]

There's not been anything like this since the original Norton's Star 
Atlas in the early 1900's, which also designated double and multiple 
stars on its maps. And like Norton's, it's an all-purpose atlas 
showing many other kinds of prominent deep-sky wonders - all 
color-coded by type.

All the best,
Jim Mullaney