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Luca Parravicini, Luigi Viazzo: Looking at the Sky with the Naked Eye and Binoculars

October 31, 2014 by Paul Morini

Edito dall’editore De Vecchi nel 2000, questo libro condivide il titolo con l’omonimo volume di Pierre Bourge e Jean Lacroux (editore Zanichelli, 1985).

I due autori hanno siglato un buon numero di libri introduttivi all’astronomia e, dei due, non è difficile entrare in contatto con Luigi Viazzo che ho avuto modo di incontrare da anni alla Fiera dell’Astronomia Amatoriale di Forlì presso lo stand dell’editore Drioli

Leggiamo dalla prefazione:

“Il binocolo, garantendo un’ampiezza di campo visivo maggiore rispetto ad altri strumenti, é, infatti, il mezzo migliore per l’osservazione di oggetti e fenomeni che difficilmente possono essere apprezzati nella loro interezza con un telescopio, del quale rappresenterà quindi il miglio compagno di ‘viaggi interstellari’.”

Looking at the sky with the naked eye and binoculars
Looking at the sky with the naked eye and binoculars

Il libro ha 127 pagine ed è diviso in due parti, “Il cielo” e “Il cielo con il binocolo” (questa sezione parte da pagina 71).

La parte dedicata al binocolo è divisa in capitoli:

Il binocolo: lo strumento del neofita

Osservare il Sole e la Luna

Osservare i pianeti

Osservare le meteore e le comete

Osservare le stelle doppie, le variabili e il profondo cielo

Gli oggetti binoculari nelle diverse costellazioni

Il libro è interessante, le carte sugli allineamenti delle costellazioni sono molto chiare, come pure è utile l’ultimo capitolo con gli elenchi degli oggetti binoculari vbisibili nelle diverse stagioni.

Tuttavia qualche segno “meno” non posso esimermi dall’assegnarlo.

Alcune cose sono un po’ fuori luogo, ad esempio una foto e un disegno della Nebulosa Anulare della Lira come mai potranno essere osservate con il binocolo; ancora, il capitolo sui pianeti è chiaramente più “telescopico” che “binoculare”.

Mentre la maggior parte degli schemi disegnati sono molto chiari e nitidi, ci sono alcuni disegni di oggetti visti al telescopio che sono stati straziati dalla stampa e molte fotografie sono sgranatissime o presentano pixel di dimensioni assurde.

Al giorno d’oggi non sembra che ci siano grossi problemi a procurarsi immagini astronomiche ad alta risoluzione, né crediamo che bisogni insegnare nulla ai due autori in questo campo: misteri dell’editoria!

Paul Morini
Paul Morini

Paolo Morini: Born a few days before the beginning of the Space Age, he discovered the sky and space during the night of the Apollo 11 landing. His irreversible binocular imprinting was conferred on him by a pair of Zenith 10x50 binoculars (still in good condition – priced at 10,000 lire in 1970). The next pair will be his fifteenth. He also works in astronomy popularization and edits the Sky of the Month column for the UAI.

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