interstellarum Deep Sky Guide Desk Edition

It really helps me in determining that I’m looking at the correct object depending on your aperture.

This volume contains images as one would see them, rather than in typical atlas form. Beautifully made and bound. High quality. Intended for dedicated serious deep-sky amateur astronomers, as a reference book both at home and while star viewing with telescope. I'm not quite at that level of involvement for whom this book is intended, but I love astronomy and my telescopes, and even though it's at times more than I need, I still love it. Nicely large-spiral bound for easy lay-flat, stay-in-place open pages. Many excellent aspects and features, including the color scheme of the images......more than I need, but I still find it useful even for my lesser level of involvement in astronomy than this volume is intended to serve.

this guide is an awesome edition too the atlas !! because amazon didn’t ship it with any care,, 3 corners were dented !! not bad enough to return but really amazon, shipping an 80 book without thought of putting in something to keep book from getting knocked around is inexcusable for sure,..

Amazon does not do a good job of explaining the difference between the Guide and the Atlas. No images, no explanation. The Atlas is a fabulous set of sky maps showing celestial objects for the amateur night sky observer. The Guide is an index of those objects. It contains good images of each of those objects and a minimum of information about them. The Guide is a companion to the Atlas. Get the Atlas first. Though the Atlas is clear and beautiful, neither of these is for the beginner.

Excellent resource for the observer. A much needed companion to the Atlas. It certainly enhances one's planning and expectations.

very useful and a helps a lot with items on inter in the sky atlas...