It always pleases me to see pictures of NGC 4216, the edge-on spiral galaxy with a star beside its nucleus. I used to use it as a pointer to the short-period contact binary star CC Comae Berenices back when I used observe eclipsing binaries with my Celestron 8.
It was my old astrophotography blog: https://neurohack.com/Astrophotography/index.html
And the book it led to is 101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: https://www.amazon.com/101-Amazing-Sights-Night-Sky/dp/15919...
Neither is very popular, but it was a lot of fun.
It always pleases me to see pictures of NGC 4216, the edge-on spiral galaxy with a star beside its nucleus. I used to use it as a pointer to the short-period contact binary star CC Comae Berenices back when I used observe eclipsing binaries with my Celestron 8.
Nice! I was never much of a visual observer--I never had the patience.
Picked it up :) The look inside was great, it reminds me of an old astronomy book that I was obsessed with a long time ago.
Awesome! Let me know what you think.
Did not expect to see a book about night sky in this post. The book looks great. I'm getting one for my sons.
Hope they like it! Let me know what they think!
Its probably the Archive if you follow the link