Herschel 400 Observing Guide

The Herschel 400 Observing Guide is an excellent resource. Most helpful is that this guide provides a photograph of each object the amateur is trying to find. As someone who uses strictly star hopping methods when searching for an object, having the ability to visually confirm a sighting is a tremendous benefit in the field. The descriptions and the directions for finding these objects are also very good. Bottom line: this is a thorough and practical guide to the Herschel 400 objects.

Though I haven't had a chance to use this under the stars yet I have been reading this extensively in preparation for the beginning of my Herschel year. It's highly organized and eliminates the guesswork in what I'm going to be viewing in an evening.

I completed viewing the Messier catalog and was looking for my next viewing project and decided on this. Well organized and very useful. The charts in the book are not enough on their own for me, so I find a star atlas is a necessary companion, Sky Atlas 2000.0 is my first choice.

This book gives detail descriptions of the most interesting 400 deep sky objects out of the Messier catalog. Very valuable resource.

A great book!

It is an awesome book!!!!!