Guest devil74 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Evening all Can somebody please recommend a good tinternet site/list of messier objects please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Here's one that has pictures of the related object. http://www.jastrow.net/messier/ And here's a very good one, with maps of where they are. http://www.solarius.net/Pages/Articles/dbArticle.aspx?artid=messier_finders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devil74 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Cheers Martyn, your a star lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 The first link is great, thanks Baz. M97 is cool. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T A WOW Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Nice list that is thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 The second one comes in handy when you are looking for them. Some of these are huge, and only visible in binoculars to get them all in, Particularly M31, and M33, M31 is about three times the width of a full Moon in all it's glory. The first time I went looking for M33, it took me hours to realise I was looking clean through it. Others on the other hand such as M76 are small and tricky to find. easy to see once you have them, but elusive. M57 can be tricky for the first few times, but you will surprise yourself when you can almost go straight to it. When you have found your object, look through the finder scope, and get a mental picture of the star field round it. Next time you will know if you are in the neighbourhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawson Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 I saw someones copy of this hard back book the other week and it was lovely: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0521895545 James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devil74 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Hey that looks a really good book...its so good getting all these recommendations. Thanks folks. Ordered the sky atlas martyn advised me to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Folks also see this link :---- http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-messier-1to10.html If you would like pdf's listing their ra & dec pm me an e-mail address & i'll send. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest devil74 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 www.naasbeginners.co.uk/MOBJECTS.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 (edited) The pdf's contain certain other info like, magnitude, afov,best time to observe, difficulty factor etc.. Its not a simple list. Edited February 26, 2013 by Tweedledum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Type-R Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 (edited) Check this thread out in the beginners and tutorials section, it's a link I posted a year or so ago.. http://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/topic/434-telrad-messier-star-charts/#entry3934 Edited February 26, 2013 by Daz Type-R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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