Friday, July 15, 2011

Looking for a good list of Messier objects......?

I've found beginners have a really hard time seeing galaxies, so I'd skip most of those, except for a few of the brightest like M31 and M81/82. Open star clusters and globular star clusters are best, along with double stars. The two bright planetary nebulae, M27 and M57, and both pretty good targets. I often show M11 and M13 at this time of year. When Sagittarius gets higher, it's chock full of bright nebulae and clusters. My personal favourite is the Swan or Omega Nebula.

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