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It’s a beautiful, crisp, clear night, the seeing is perfect, light pollution is minimal, and you’re equipped with high-quality binoculars or a telescope. Eager to pursue your passion for astronomy, you have decided that tonight you’ll look at a whole range of interesting objects — beginning with a beautiful double star, perhaps a triple star system. Then once you’re fully dark-adapted you’ll try for a glimpse of a few compact star clusters and maybe a couple of spiral galaxies.
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Inglis, M.D. (2001). Introduction. In: Field Guide to the Deep Sky Objects. Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3680-4_1
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