The Barnard Objects have fascinated professional and amateur astronomers for over 100 years. Barnard’s images were obtained with black and white photographic plates. Astronomical photographic plates have been replaced by digital imaging with CCD and CMOS chips. This book directly compares Barnards images from A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way with modern color images of the same regions and on the same scale.This book complements

The Barnard Objects have fascinated professional and amateur astronomers for over one hundred years. Many of those objects first imaged by E.E. Barnard on black-and-white photographic plates are now being captured daily in thousands of color astrophotographs. This book tells of Barnard’s story; describing his life and work as well as how the fields of astronomy and astrophotography have transformed ever since.The chapters in this book are equal parts history and science. It will pr...