Amalia
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Amalia's 200
200 easy Deep Sky Objects up to mag10 (including some double stars).
Hopefully nobody will think I am 200 years old now! 
I have compiled this in the last days and nights since there were
many requests about such a list.
You can start observing at the current month, beginning
with the easiest visible celestial objects (these with one *).
I have corrected this list twice - surely there are some more
typos - please tell me!
Thank you! 
Amalia
(Attachment: the complete list in excel-format. As I work with AppleWorks
on a Mac I hope the conversion to Excel was successful - I can't test this,
so tell me if it doesn't work. I could try other conversions.)
Edit: If you like to download the newest version of the list,
please go to the end of this thread! Thank you
rboe has deleted the old list that appeared here at Amalias' request.
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Edited by rboe (08/22/05 08:34 PM)
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Mitrovarr
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M3 is listed twice, both on the attachment and the list in your message. NGC 2392 is, as well.
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prepare a free telrad chart will likely to make it great!
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Amalia
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Quote:
M3 is listed twice, both on the attachment and the list in your message. NGC 2392 is, as well.
Thank you so much, Mitrovarr!
I have corrected my errors (and inserted M43 and NGC 1981).
Amalia
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Mitrovarr
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Kembel's cascade is listed as an 'aterism'.
R Leonis is listed as just being a 'star' without anything special (is it red? is it variable?)
Iota Leonis is listed as jota Leonis (probable OCR error)
Iota Cancri is listed as jota Cancri
alpha Piscis should be alpha Piscium
Otherwise, it's an excellent list, it took me a long time to find anything I particularly like that wasn't on it. The only thing I can think of is M24, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud. I know it's not technically a DSO, but I find it very worthwhile to look at just the same.
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Amalia
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Thank you from my heart, Mitrovarr! 
v8: corrected "asterism" - described better the three red stars -
changed (German) "jota" into "iota" - changed "Piscis" into "Piscium" -
added M24 - put M43 at M42 - added "Thank you, Mitrovarr!"
Amalia
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Amalia
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prepare a free telrad chart will likely to make it great!
I am sorry I can't do this, Pup.
Drawing 200 Telrad charts would mean around 70 hours = one week's work.
I thought it can be used with these free charts:
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1052
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/index.html
I hope you will find them this way!
Amalia
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Amalia
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Huh, I was able to create a PDF version. 
Amalia
P.S. Hm, but I can't upload it. CN doesn't accept PDF format. 
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Kenny
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Hopefully nobody will think I am 200 years old now!
Well, since you were 36 years old last week . . . maybe 200 in cat years? 
BTW, you never commented on my guess in the last thread.  I know - how rude of me.
It's a nice list, and I have seen a few of them, but as I said before - until I get a scope with more than 80mm, I am officially declaring Luna to be a DSO.
Glad to see you back,
Ken.
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Amalia
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Kenny,
no, I am not 200 cat years old 
Maybe light years, who knows? 
With an 80mm scope at a dark side you should be able to observe
all objects I mentioned. Remember: " ***** " means "visible with a
40mm binocular" (at a dark site, of course).
I think even most "c-objects" should be visible in your scope.
Well, I was back - for a moment - now I hear the mountains' call...
Amalia
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Kenny
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With an 80mm scope at a dark side you should be able to observe all objects I mentioned. Remember: " ***** " means "visible with a 40mm binocular" (at a dark site, of course). I think even most "c-objects" should be visible in your scope.
Yeah, but you forgot the part about me being lazy and incompetent!
I mostly like Luna and the planets, for DSO I will probably just go with the really easy ones like the Messier objects that actually look nice at 80mm (M8, M13, M22, M42, ect.). KENNY NEEDS A BIG APO!
Ken.
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Bug
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Great list, that is next years targets sorted out for me.
Thanks for all the hard work 
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Amalia, thanks very much for this! I've been working on a similar list for myself, although not based strictly on mag nor have I included stars. Yours should complement mine nicely for my viewing!
Appreciate it!! Hope to see you back regularly soon, I've missed your cheery posts.
Steph
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dgs©
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Wow! Lots of work on your part Amalia! Great job. 
I added a feature for filtering the list in various ways...
There are little pick boxes with upside-down triangles under each column heading. Click the box under description and it presents a list of all entries in the table... select galaxies, and the entire list will become only a list of galaxies. 40 of them to be exact... that's another item I added above the month column. It's a formula that gives the number of objects in the list (as filtered).
You can filter more than one column, and make custom filters like filtering month for "greater than or equal to 6" AND "Less than or equal to 9" (76 objects), then in combination with filtering for galaxy, (10 objects).
It is saved in the older Excel 5.0/95 format in hopes that more people will be able to put it to good use.
I don't know if this will translate to Appleworks (I hope it will).
Thank you very much for giving us this tool Amalia.
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magredc5
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Amalia:
Thank you very much! Last night I was looking for some new objects to track down and this will be very helpful indeed.
John
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Amalia
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Just posted version 10, and asked David if he could include it in his
improved version.
Version 10 = corrected some more typos and added informations about
how to find the Barnard objects.
Amalia
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dgs©
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Here is the updated Version 10 with the filtering and object counter included.
Amalia, does the filtering work after translating to Appleworks?
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- david
8"Ø Newtonian on SVP, Moonlite CR2, Telrad
PST Oberwerk Ultra 15x70 Orion Ultraview 10×50
Hand-me-down Sears Refractor (Discoverer) 60mm×900mm
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal." --Albert Pike
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Snow dog
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Thanks for the list Amalia. That gives us newbies something to look for and when to look for them. 
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ForgottenMObject
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Thanks Amalia!
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Matthew
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dgs©
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Forgot to mention... in order for the filtering to work, you have to save the file to your computer first and then open it with Excel (or perhaps other spreadsheet software?). It won't filter when opened with Internet Explorer... at least not for me anyway.
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- david
8"Ø Newtonian on SVP, Moonlite CR2, Telrad
PST Oberwerk Ultra 15x70 Orion Ultraview 10×50
Hand-me-down Sears Refractor (Discoverer) 60mm×900mm
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world, remains and is immortal." --Albert Pike
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