Astronomy of the Milky Way

Astronomy of the Milky Way
Observer
s Guide to the Southern Sky
One of the visual wonders of the universe we live in is the Milky Way. It spans our entire sky and can be seen on every night of the year from anywhere on Earth.
Astronomy of the Milky Way covers every constellation that the Milky Way passes through, and describes in detail the many objects that can be found there—all from a practical observer
s point of view. It is one of a two-volume set that together deal with the entire Milky Way—this second volume looks at what can be seen predominantly from Southern locations.
The objects listed include stars, double and multiple stars, emission nebulae, planetary nebulae, dark nebulae and supernovae remnants, open and galactic clusters, and galaxies. Mike Inglis also describes something that is often left out of observing guides—the amazing star clouds of the Milky Way itself.
Equipped with this book, an amateur astronomer in the Southern hemisphere can go out on any clear night of the year and observe in depth the galaxy we live in—The Milky Way.