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	Atlas (star) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atlas is a triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45).
		The primary component, Atlas A, is a blue-white B-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +3.62.
		Atlas also has a dimmer magnitude +6.8 companion, Atlas B, at a separation of 0.4 arcseconds or at least 52 Astronomical Units away.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atlas_(star) (107 words)

	Bright Star Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All that was lacking was a nice inexpensive atlas to accompany the binoculars.
		This 10 map atlas of the night sky is drawn by Wil Tirion and us based upon the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogs with a stellar limiting magnitude of 6.5.
		Atlas includes a set of seasonal star maps to help orient the user to the night sky throughout practically the entire populated world.
	www.willbell.com /atlas/atlas1.htm (215 words)

	AAVSO: Variable Star of the Month, R Hydrae
		The variable star R Hydrae has the distinction of being the third Mira-type variable to be discovered, falling in behind omircon Ceti (also known as Mira, which is the prototype of the class) found in 1596 and chi Cygni found in 1686.
		The star was noted as a 6th magnitude star, but was overlooked as a source of variability.
		The ultimate fate of the star, and the rate at which a star evolves, is greatly dependent on the mass of the star.
	www.aavso.org /vstar/vsots/0502.shtml (2481 words)

	UBVRI Standard Star Fields for WIYN
		For fields that include several standard stars, the telescope should be pointed at the coordinates of the field center to ensure that all stars are included in the frame.
		A table lists fields in the atlas with direct links to finding charts that should be very useful to observers wishing to include many standards in their photometric calibrations without having to pay the substantial penalty in overhead time inherent in observing single-star fields.
		Proper exposure length for a standard star field is a relatively complex topic exacerbated by the fact that the large aperture of WIYN leads to exceedingly short exposures for many stars (especially late-type or highly reddened stars).
	www.noao.edu /wiyn/obsprog/images/atlasinfo.html (1603 words)

	Astronomical Leage - Reflector Book Review: Millenium Star Atlas
		It is the first atlas to include orientations of all plotted galaxies, and the first atlas to include galaxy clusters.
		Most amateur astronomers prefer an atlas in which the sky is depicted continuously in decreasing right ascension from the left-hand page to the right-page of each two-page spread of charts.
		In the Millenium Star Atlas, on the other hand, within each right-ascension gore, the charts work their way from the north pole to the south pole as you would read a page of text.
	www.astroleague.org /al/bookserv/obsgd/rev98021.html (946 words)

	Skymaps.com: Recommended Astronomy Books and Products
		Star charts depict the night sky, and this atlas is arranged so that one section of the sky is shown and described on each double-page spread.
		The Cambridge Star Atlas covers the whole sky in 20 overlapping full color charts that show stars to magnitude 6.5 and about 900 non-stellar objects such as clusters and galaxies that are visible in binoculars or a small telescope.
		Atlas of the Moon is intended for beginners but the maps and the accompanying lists of the lunar formations would satisfy even the most experienced amateur lunar observer.
	skymaps.com /store/cat01.html (2300 words)

	O Star Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stars with radial velocity excursions in excess of 35 km/sec are noted as "SB1?" since such large variations are probably related to binary motion.
		These results are generally consistent with the expectation that the runaway stars and some of the field stars were ejected from their birthplaces in clusters by processes which tend to disrupt binaries.
		Subsequent perturbations from cluster stars cause a decrease in the semimajor axis of the double binary and an increase in eccentricity.
	ad.usno.navy.mil /wds/dsl/Ostars/ostars.html (7358 words)

	ScienceDaily Books : The Cambridge Star Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Cambridge Star Atlas covers the entire sky, both northern and southern latitudes, in an attractive format that is suitable for beginners and experienced astronomical observers.
		A nice, beautiful Atlas similar in size and scale to Norton's Star Atlas but without the reference sections that Norton's is known for.
		This is the only Star Atlas I have, and I've been using it most nights I am out using the telescope or just studying the night sky.
	www.sciencedaily.com /cgi-bin/apf4/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0521560985 (1877 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science -- Atlas starred
		His was the first true scientific star atlas, and it spawned imitators and innovation for two centuries.
		From the 6,000 stars that can be seen by the naked eye (a minute fraction of the nearly 200 billion in the Milky Way), they have imagined dogs, bears and hunters, goddesses, chariots and monsters.
		Stars in the southernmost skies were invisible from Alexandria's latitude, so Ptolemy's star chart had a big southern starless void.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20050119-9999-lz1c19stars.html (1141 words)

	The Astrophysics Spectator: Norton's 2000.0 Star Atlas and Reference Handbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The current version of this atlas, which was updated by Ian Ridpath to give stellar positions for epoch 2000.0, provides wonderfully detailed stellar maps and indexes of interesting objects visible with a small telescope.
		Buried in the center of the atlas is the table of Messier objects, which are a set of galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae that are especially good objects for the small telescope.
		The atlas also contains numerous tables, including tables for the characteristics of the planets and their moons, tables of the nearest and the brightest stars, tables of the different types of variable star.
	www.astrophysicsspectator.com /store/stargazing/NortonStarAtlas.html (438 words)

	USATODAY.com - Old meets new in the cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SAN DIEGO — An ancient star atlas lost for centuries and a cutting-edge atlas of the modern universe were unveiled Tuesday by scientists at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
		Hidden in plain sight for centuries, the star atlas was found on a statue in Italy's National Museum of Archaeology in Naples.
		Inscribed on the Farnese Atlas, he reports, is the lost star catalogue of Hipparchus, one of the great Greek astronomers who lived around 140 B.C. on the island of Rhodes.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-01-11-atlas_x.htm (492 words)

	An Atlas of The Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first map shows the nearest stars and then the other maps slowly expand out until we have reached the scale of the entire visible universe.
		The closest star to the Sun is only 7000 times further than the edge of our solar system.
		A large proportion of the stars visible with the naked eye are within 250 light years.
	anzwers.org /free/universe (480 words)

	MVAS Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I’m not sure I’ve seen Star Atlas 2000, I may be thinking of Wil Tiron’s Sky Atlas 2000, but if’n I recall right both are pretty good.
		If your telescope has an equatorial mount star hopping with a star atlas is relatively straightforward.
		The problem is star maps are oriented north-south-east-west while your telescope axis are oriented up-down-left-right.
	www.mvas.org /discus/messages/10/57.html?1019444806 (507 words)

	DevASP Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook, 20th Edition Book - 0131451642
		Star altases have to be taken into the field and roughed up a bit and get a little damp with dew.
		The heart of the atlas are the 16 starcharts, presented in the two-disk/six gore format familiar to lovers of the previous editions of the Norton's.
		These maps are more readable than ever, giving visual precidence to the stars themselves rather than labels, grid lines, etc. A thoughtful touch was to print the charts with a generous gutter margin so that stars near the celestial equator don't get trapped out of sight down in the spine of the book.
	www.devasp.com /store/shop62/pd0131451642/Books_and_Software (568 words)

	The Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission: The Millennium Star Atlas
		The Millennium Star Atlas is a three-volume compilation of 1548 sky charts resulting from a substantial collaboration between Sky Publication Corporation (represented by Roger W. Sinnott) and the European Space Agency and the Hipparcos scientific community (represented by Michael Perryman, Erik Høg, and Hans Schrijver).
		Variable stars are shown with a circle surrounding the star (solid, dashed, or dotted - depending on the amplitude of variability).
		Details of the star's variability type, variability period, and name are included (with some encoding!) in the Atlas.
	www.rssd.esa.int /Hipparcos/atlas.html (429 words)

	O Star Atlas - Notes
		All 4 of the Orion Trapezium stars were observed with the speckle camera (A = HD 37020; B = HD 37021; C = HD 37022; D = HD 37023) and all appeared to be single.
		06374+0608 = HD 47129 (Plaskett's star) : The classification is from Bagnuolo & Barry (1996).
		The star is part of a group associated with the cluster IC 2395 (Eggen 1982).
	www.chara.gsu.edu /CHARA/DoubleStars/Ostars/notes.html (4332 words)

	Art Russell's Star-Hopping
		In star hopping, one typically starts with a finder scope with the wider field of view, finds the correct location, and then zeros in on the selected object with a lower powered (but typically wider field of view) eyepiece before going to higher powers for observation.
		Sky Atlas 2000.0 is often the first "serious" star atlas an amateur moves into when they decide its time to really start chasing down objects beyond the "big and bright" or Messier objects.
		Computer based star charts can offer a chart reflecting the "zoomed in" field of view of your favorite eyepiece for those instances wherein you are trying to identify the individual members of galaxy groups and clusters.
	education.gsu.edu /spehar/FOCUS/Astronomy/star-hop/Star-Hopping.htm (2533 words)

	Starting Out Right, by Rob Lentini
		As the brighter stars became familiar sights, a Rand McNally Star Finder was a nice complement to the book, allowing me to investigate how the constellations were arranged across the sky.
		Atlas was the name of a Titan who was condemned to hold the sky on his shoulders for all eternity (the ancient Greek answer to why the sky doesn't fall).
		The Millennium Star Atlas, produced by Michael Perryman and Roger Sinnott, Tirion's collaborator on the Sky Atlas 2000.0, has 1,548 charts showing tiny sections of the sky, with stars shown as dim as 11th magnitude.
	www.novac.com /nl/96/starting.html (2144 words)

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	www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=61303 (636 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Cambridge Star Atlas: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clear, authoritative and easy-to-use, The Cambridge Star Atlas is an ideal reference atlas for sky watchers everywhere.
		The third edition of the Cambridge Star Atlas is a vast improvement compared to the second edition.
		Stars down to a magnitude of 6.5 are shown, which may not suit some users, but to me it’s quite enough.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521800846 (989 words)

	Sun.Star Network Online - Atlas secures P100M tax deal
		CEBU CITY -- In a major development since it ceased operations a decade ago, Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corp. (ACMDC) donated over P100 million in cash, shares of stock and properties to the Toledo City Government, as it prepares to reopen its mining operations next year.
		No definite schedule was given but Atlas officials hope to get all the permits and approvals for the rehabilitation of the mines to start next year.
		Atlas' copper mining operations, which started commercial operations in 1955, are centered in Toledo where two open pit mines, two underground mines and milling complexes (concentrators) are located.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/net/2004/12/12/atlas.secures.p100m.tax.deal.html (572 words)

	Greywolf's Ironclaw Page - Repense Star Atlas
		The twelve constellations of the Zodiac consist of (Northern Hemisphere) the Fish, the Sword, the Destrier, the Chalice, the Natheireun, the Coffer, and (Southern Hemisphere) the Spider, the Scepter, the Serpent, the Scythe, the Comhach, the Bow.
		In illuminated star atlases, the species of the Knight varies greatly, depending upon the region in which the atlas was made (and its intended audience), but the Repense depict this as a horse of Avoirdupois, driving off the serpentine Daemon ("Naga"), the Sea Monster ("Kraken"), and the Great Beast.
		This is a relatively new addition to the star atlases, as in ancient charts, these stars were not considered bright enough (positioned as they are against the hazy stream of the Spilled Wine) to warrant a constellation of their own.
	greywolf.critter.net /ironclaw/staratlas.htm (3066 words)

	Buying a Star: the Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Further, the official-looking star charts that commonly accompany a "purchased star name" are the Becvar charts excerpted from the _Atlas Coeli 1950.0_.
		Examples are Betelgeuse, the bright orange star in the constellation Orion, and Dubhe, the second-magnitude star at the edge of the Big Dipper's cup (Ursa Major).
		A third of a million stars to a faintness of ninth magnitude are listed by "BD numbers." The _Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Catalog_, _The Yale Star Catalog_, and _The Henry Draper Catalog_ published by Harvard College Observatory all are widely used by astronomers.
	www.astro.wisc.edu /~dolan/constellations/StarNaming.html (677 words)

	Stella Online! Newsletter of the Omaha Astronomical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mainly because choosing a star map or star atlas is a highly subjective topic, and a very personal one as well.
		The Cambridge Star Atlas, 2nd Edition by Wil Tirion is a well laid-out and extremely easy to use star atlas, containing maps for the entire Northern and Southern hemispheres, showing naked-eye stars to magnitude 5 and many more deep-sky objects than the above guide, including all of the NGC targets.
		I would highly recommend this as your first star atlas, if you are willing to do without the photos and textual information about mythology, and such.
	www.omahaastro.com /bccurrent.htm (829 words)

	Sky Atlas for Small Telescopes and Binoculars
		The atlas format is similar to the classic Norton's Star Atlas.
		Preceeding the atlas proper is a general overview of observing techniques, equipment, a little background on the nature of the deep sky objects to be observed, and suggestions on where to go next.
		Quoting from the text, "If this atlas does the job it is intended to do, you will soon outgrow it." It is intended to ensure that your first steps in astronomical observing will be successful and rewarding ones.
	www.davidchandler.com /atlas.htm (507 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cambridge Star Atlas: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It does not show as many stars as either of the other two, but shows enough stars and a considerable number of deep sky objects, with tables accompanying each chart to show coordinates of the objects on that chart.
		Sky Atlas 2000 is to big to take outside, but is the charts I use at my desk.
		For bigger telescopes, a larger and more detailed atlas would be advisable, but I think this one could be useful for telescopes up to about 6 inches.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521560985?v=glance (2099 words)

	Clues to lost star atlas found on Titans shoulder
		Carved in marble, Titan Atlas, kneeling on one knee is holding much more than a large marble globe on his shoulder.
		The statue known as the Farnese Atlas is a 7-foot tall marble work with a 65 cm in diameter globe on Titan’s one shoulder.
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	www.earthtimes.org /articles/show/1195.html (485 words)

	Ancient Astronomer's Work Found On Roman Statue
		The statue in question is known as the Farnese Atlas, a 7-foot tall marble work which resides in the Farnese Collection in the National Archeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
		Another Hipparchus invention -- the idea of precession, which is the slow movement of the stars and constellations across the sky in relation to the celestial equator -- led Schaefer to believe that Atlas's globe referred to Hipparchus's star catalog.
		Other theories about who wrote the star catalog include observers who were either too early -- including a poet writing around 275 BC and an Assyrian observer around 1130 BC -- or too late.
	www.rense.com /general61/workf.htm (386 words)

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