Abstract
IN the fifth edition of this work the constellation boundaries were drawn in accordance with the scheme adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1930, and this plan has been followed in the sixth and present editions. Among the additions to the seventh edition may be noted a revised and enlarged index to contents and also on the last page an index to constellations and charts. Precession tables on p. xvii with an example of their use is another addition which will prove useful. The chief enlargement in the work has been made in a greatly extended list of “Interesting Objects”, the number having been increased from 130 in previous editions to 523. The positions of these objects are referred to the equinox of 1950.0, which will be a standard of reference for a considerable time. The first four sections of the “Reference Handbook” at the beginning of the work supply useful information on a large number of astronomical terms, while the fifth and sixth sections give hints to observers and instructions on the use of the telescope. The work is intended primarily for the use of the amateur observer whose telescope is mounted either on an alt-azimuth stand or as an equatorial without graduated circles. It will certainly fulfil its object, and every amateur who is anxious to do useful work should be in possession of this volume.
A Star Atlas and Reference Handbook (Epoch 1920–1950)
FOE Students and Amateurs. By Arthur P. Norton. The Reference Handbook by J. Gall Inglis and A. P. Norton. Seventh edition. Pp. xii + 52 + 18 maps + xiv–xxii. (London and Edinburgh: Gall and Inglis, 1940.) 12s. 6d. net.
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D., M. Astronomy. Nature 145, 656 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145656a0
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