There were no reviews of this book when I decided to buy. When the book arrived I read it through. There are lots of helpful tips about viewing objects - open clusters, globular clusters planetary nebulae etc. It is all about the quest of the author to provide an Atlas that can be used as a means of finding and recording your own personal experience in locating these objects in a documented way. The analogy used by the author is that the method is not unlike the collecting of postage stamps and fixing them into the preset rectangles on those pages designed for sequential stamp sets! I don't know that I have explained that properly. In other words as a reference you know when you have seen something and those objects yet to be seen.

This is an expensive package and to my dismay the CD-ROM is not Mac compatible. The disc is Windows only but there is no statement to this effect on the disc or within the book. I am using the disc in a labourous way which is not really what I wanted when I bought this Atlas. This book deserves a Windows book reviewer. I am aggrieved that the publisher Springer devots a whole page at the end of the book stating that there is a non-return policy covering this book when the CD-ROM has be removed from the clear plastic envelope that holds the CD-ROM. So I hope Springer will contact me an provide me with a Mac compatible disc... Funny that the author wrote this Atlas on a Mac!