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skyward_eyes
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 12/12/06
Posts: 893
Loc: Arizona
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Ok well I am heading out to the All Arizona Star Party in a few weeksn and this will be my 16" Dobs first star party. I usually just pick a constellation in my Sky Atlas 2000 and hunt down everything in it. Is there anything that is a must see with a dob this large? Ideas?
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19 year old Astronomy Major
www.skywardeyes.webs.com
Scopes:
16" Truss
10" Orion XTi w/Moonlite Focuser
4.3" William Optics Megrez 110ED
Lunt LS60Ha (On Order!)
Coronado PST (On loan)
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Couple of TeleVue eyepieces, SVP GEM, and some other stuff...
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Starman1
Vendor - Scope City
Reged: 06/24/03
Posts: 10920
Loc: Los Angeles
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There are many lists. But if you want a great list of objects, all of which will appear "interesting" in the eyepiece, here's one of (if not the very best) the best:
http://homepage.mac.com/vicmenard/telescopes/
and download "The List".
I've seen every object on this list except those too far south to see in my neck of the woods, and, uniformly, they are truly special objects. Spectacular.
If you want the complete list to shoot for, go here:
http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/downloads.htm
and download the full catalog. Once you've completed that list, ask me for more. There are even larger lists.
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Don Pensack
12.5" Truss Dob, 5" Maksutov
Sustaining Lifetime IDA member, TeleVue junkie
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stevecoe
Reged: 04/24/04
Posts: 2114
Loc: Arizona, USA
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The SAC database has the complete Messier and NGC catalogs along with the best of Barnard, Trumpler, Abell, Sharpless and many others. It contains data on over 10,000 objects. I have been working on it for 30 years, I am almost half done.
Enjoy;
Steve Coe
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150mm 6" f/8 Celestron Refractor on Sirius Mount
80mmED 3" f/7.5 Orion Refractor
Author "Deep Sky Observing" Springer-Verlag
Author "Nebulae and How to Observe Them" Springer
New Canon Xt astrocamera with Hutech modification
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SanDiegoPaul
professor emeritus
Reged: 07/22/05
Posts: 598
Loc: San Diego
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Get yourself a copy of AstroPlanner.
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Meade 10" Lx200-R with Moonlight SCT Focuser
Mitty Evolution Wedge
AT-80 Guide Scope
SBIG ST402ME CCD Imager
Canon Digital Rebel DSLR
Meade DSI-c CCD for Guiding
Please visit my gallery!
http://www.pbase.com/sandiegopaul/
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zee
super member
Reged: 07/04/07
Posts: 134
Loc: Arizona (varies)
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While the SAC database is amazing, it's a bit overwhelming. I myself downloaded the Messier, Caldwell, SAA 100, and Herschel 400 lists, put the data into a chart, fixed dissimilarities, then sorted it by type of object and magnitude (can sort by RA any time I wish) and got rid of duplicates. For my size scope, that becomes "DSOs I have a change of seeing one day"). For a bigger scope, it might be a "list DSOs that look most impressive."
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8" Orion classic dob
15x70 Celestron Skymaster
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skyward_eyes
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 12/12/06
Posts: 893
Loc: Arizona
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Got my list, thank you guys.
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19 year old Astronomy Major
www.skywardeyes.webs.com
Scopes:
16" Truss
10" Orion XTi w/Moonlite Focuser
4.3" William Optics Megrez 110ED
Lunt LS60Ha (On Order!)
Coronado PST (On loan)
Eyepieces:
Couple of TeleVue eyepieces, SVP GEM, and some other stuff...
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