Deep-Sky Companions: The Messier Objects

The definitive observing atlas of all 110 Messier objects. Combines detailed finder charts, photographs, and the author's own eyepiece drawings with historical background and astrophysical data for each object, a reference-grade companion for deep-sky observers working through the Messier list.

A beloved collection of Walter Scott Houston's celebrated Sky & Telescope column spanning five decades of deep-sky observing. Brimming with lyrical descriptions and hard-won observing wisdom from one of the great amateur astronomers.

The exhaustive, season-by-season field reference for serious deep-sky observers — thousands of objects with eyepiece descriptions and sketches across a range of apertures, the bench reference experienced observers return to night after night. It is a four-volume set, sold one volume at a time: Vol 1 Autumn & Winter and Vol 2 Spring & Summer cover the northern sky between them, Vol 3 The Southern Skies reaches below the celestial equator, and Vol 4 The Glories of the Milky Way goes deep along the galactic plane to −54°. Most northern-hemisphere observers start with Volume 1, which is what the buy link points to.