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Just received a card in the mail from Willmann-Bell announcing that Volume 7 of the series is now available for the introductory price of $20.95 (+shipping). It covers the constellations Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater and Crux. It is an excellent series, though limited in scope as far as the number of objects it covers. It does present some of the more recent scientific findings regarding some of the objects in each volume.

Though touted by some as an update of the seminal Burnham's Celestial Handbook, I would never call it that. The BCH is much more in depth as far as sheer volume of objects covered and its more of a true field guide than the more clinical approach of Annals. Though different approaches, I find them both as worthy of being in anyone's astronomy library.

Link: https://willbell.com/HANDBOOK/Annals.html
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kt4hx wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:27 pm Just received a card in the mail from Willmann-Bell announcing that Volume 7 of the series is now available for the introductory price of $20.95 (+shipping). It covers the constellations Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater and Crux. It is an excellent series, though limited in scope as far as the number of objects it covers. It does present some of the more recent scientific findings regarding some of the objects in each volume.

Though touted by some as an update of the seminal Burnham's Celestial Handbook, I would never call it that. The BCH is much more in depth as far as sheer volume of objects covered and its more of a true field guide than the more clinical approach of Annals. Though different approaches, I find them both as worthy of being in anyone's astronomy library.

Link: https://willbell.com/HANDBOOK/Annals.html
Order as soon as I got the notice from willbell.
This is a great series.
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Don Quixote wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:32 pm :?
kt4hx wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:27 pm Just received a card in the mail from Willmann-Bell announcing that Volume 7 of the series is now available for the introductory price of $20.95 (+shipping). It covers the constellations Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater and Crux. It is an excellent series, though limited in scope as far as the number of objects it covers. It does present some of the more recent scientific findings regarding some of the objects in each volume.

Though touted by some as an update of the seminal Burnham's Celestial Handbook, I would never call it that. The BCH is much more in depth as far as sheer volume of objects covered and its more of a true field guide than the more clinical approach of Annals. Though different approaches, I find them both as worthy of being in anyone's astronomy library.

Link: https://willbell.com/HANDBOOK/Annals.html
Order as soon as I got the notice from willbell.
This is a great series.
Indeed. This is an item that my wife gets me every Christmas. Well worth it.
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Yep, I have gotten the latest volume the past few Christmases as well. Makes for a nice gift that the person who gives knows you appreciate. :)
Alan

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Primary Field Atlases: Uranometria All-Sky Edition and Interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas
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"Seeing is in some respect an art, which must be learnt." (William Herschel)
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"No good deed goes unpunished." (various)
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The email notification came in and it is on order 60 seconds later - My first Christmas present is now on the way - gotten it under the tree several times running too.
https://willbell.com/WillmannBellNL/Annals7.html
I like getting them with the initial deal and I've said it before, nobody packs & ships a book like Will-Bell.

The down side to this is when thinking about the release dates & timing I'm wondering if the series will last longer than me.
When V4 came out I did some projections on the length of the series. I'm kind of chuckling, the release rate has slowed &
the original estimates are looking optimistic:

From AF.net (May it rest in peace) November of 2016 when V4 came out:
Just did some projecting - at the current rate the totals will be:
20 volumes
@ 2 per year the final volume will be out about 2024.
7,000 + pages
20" of bookshelf space


Going to have to run the numbers again....
And for those of you who are looking to buy your first volume, Warning - they are like potato chips....

Alan - when do we start the TSS Altoholic sub-forum & threads?
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OK, made up a quick .xls. Here are the updated projections:

Catergory Nov. 2016 Est. Nov 2019 est.
# of volumes 20 21
Total Pages 7000 7400
Bookshelf space 20" 22.75"
Completion date 2024 2031*

Based on the rate of 1every 11 months, 14 volumes remaining.

Another interesting note, With this volume the total number of pages (2500) surpasses Burnham's total for all 3 volumes of close to 2200 pages.
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I've been thinking about these, but since I have a set of Burnham's which I rarely open, I'll probably take a pass. They would look nice on the shelf, I'm sure.
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