Strange that I forgot the Stoyan atlas - one of my most used books at the telescope. Although I did use O'Meara's Deep Sky Companions books (his Herschel 400 Guide is a different kind of animal) in the field quite a bit, now I consider them more of a modern-day Smyth. Smyth probably paid his publisher by the word, not the other way around. He was rich though.
P.S. To be clear, this is not a criticism. Their writing is not like the others', and this is why I read them.
Last edited by Ivan Maly; July 20th, 2014 at 04:40 PM.
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