A photographic atlas of selected regions of the Milky Way / by Edward Emerson Barnard ; edited by Edwin B. Frost and Mary R. Calvert ; republished under the direction of Gerald Orin Dobek.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes in 1927. Together these volumes contained a wealth of information, including photographic plates of the most interesting portions of the Milky Way, descriptive text, charts, and data. Only 700 copies were printed, making the original edition a collector's item. Reproduced in print for the first time, this edition combines both volumes of Barnard's Atlas. It directly replicates Barnard's text, and contains high resolution images of the original photographic plates and charts, reordered so that they can be seen together. It also includes a biography of Barnard and his work, a Foreword and Addendum by Gerald Orin Dobek describing the importance of the Atlas and additions to this volume, and a pull-out section with a mosaic of all 50 plates combined in a single panorama"-- Provided by publisher

Foreword by Gerald Orin Dobek, FRAS -- Preface from the original Atlas -- Introduction to Book 1 and Book II from the original Atlas -- Catalogue of 349 dark objects in the sky -- Catalogue of 352 dark objects in the sky in J2000.0 co-ordinates -- Photographs, charts, tables and descriptions -- Biography of Edward Emerson Barnard / by Gerald Orin Dobek.

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