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SAC's 110 Best of the NGC SAC's 110 Best of the NGC by Paul Dickson Version: 1.4 | March 26, 1997 Copyright °c 1996, by Paul Dickson. All rights reserved If you purchased this book from Paul Dickson directly, please ignore this form. I already have most of this information. Why Should You Register This Book? Please register your copy of this book. I have done two book, SAC's 110 Best of the NGC and the Messier Logbook. In the works for late 1997 is a four volume set for the Herschel 400. q I am a beginner and I bought this book to get start with deep-sky observing. q I am an intermediate observer. I bought this book to observe these objects again. q I am an advance observer. I bought this book to add to my collect and/or re-observe these objects again. The book I'm registering is: q SAC's 110 Best of the NGC q Messier Logbook q I would like to purchase a copy of Herschel 400 book when it becomes available. Club Name: __________________________________________ Your Name: __________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________ City: __________________ State: ____ Zip Code: _________ Mail this to: or E-mail it to: Paul Dickson 7714 N 36th Ave [email protected] Phoenix, AZ 85051-6401 After Observing the Messier Catalog, Try this Observing List: SAC's 110 Best of the NGC [email protected] http://www.seds.org/pub/info/newsletters/sacnews/html/sac.110.best.ngc.html SAC's 110 Best of the NGC is an observing list of some of the best objects after those in the Messier Catalog. This book is 124-pages, three-ring drilled. It has information about each object including the NGC description and page numbers from other references (e.g. Burnham's and others). The objects are sorted numerically by constellation and there is an index in the back of the book. Each object is in a small finder chart, 6 degrees on a side, with a Telrad circle. The back of this sheet has four pages taken from the book. Permission is granted to copy this page (front and back) so you can give copies to your friends. SAC is the Saguaro Astronomy Club. Other projects from the club include the SAC Deep-Sky Database and the SAC Double-Star Database, each with more than 10,000 objects. SAC's 110 Best of the NGC is available for $5. Shipping and handling is $4 for the first copy, $2 for each additional copy. For orders of 5 books or more, shipping and handling is $2 for each copy. For outside of North America, please write or send E-mail for the shipping rate. 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