I was excited that there was a new book on double stars so I just kinda blindly bought it without really looking into it too much in advance. For example, I didn't know that it featured 175 selected celestial gemstones. They describe their subjects "the night sky's most interesting double and multiple stars."
The approach is intriguing where they do a deep dive into each system covering the history and recent measurements, and providing a finder chart and orbital plots.
It also made me wonder how many I've seen...
Noted a fun fact early on. Frank Acfield gave Bob Argyle a copy of Norton Star Atlas when he was starting out. Frank hails from Newcastle-on-Tyne. Ha ha. Where the David Dunlap Observatory telescope and dome was designed and tested.
I like how the authors said that "none are the same." Indeed. Double stars are unique. Like snowflakes.
In chapter 2, they briefly talked about a variety of techniques for measuring double stars. This is topical for me as as I prepare for the citizen science talk at RASC Montreal in a month or so. I was pleased that I generally got them all. Whew.
Purchased as a little Christmas gift to myself.
Looking forward to it.
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