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Re: What would make nice targets for tonight?
      06/22/09 10:23 PM

Here are my top ten DSO lists for the summer:

Top ten deep-sky objects for June: M5, M101, M102, NGC 5566, NGC 5585, NGC 5689, NGC 5746, NGC 5813, NGC 5838, NGC 5907

Top ten deep-sky objects for July: M4, M6, M7, M10, M12, M13, M92, NGC 6210, NGC 6231, NGC 6543

Top ten deep-sky objects for August: M8, M11, M16, M17, M20, M22, M24, M27, M55, M57

Top ten deep-sky objects for September: IC 1396, M2, M15, M30, NGC 6888, NGC 6946, NGC 6960, NGC 6992, NGC 7000, NGC 7009

You may want to consult some of these DSO lists:

http://www.seds.org/Messier/messier.html

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/similar/sac110bn.html

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/Messier/xtra/similar/rasc-ngc.html

http://www.astronomyboy.com/saa/

http://skywatch.brainiac.com/saa100/saanm2.pdf

http://www.taas.org/taas/load.php?fil=taas200.html

http://x.astrogeek.org/observations/list.php?list_id=26

http://homepage.mac.com/vicmenard/telescopes/TheList.pdf

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/raycash/dm600.htm

http://delphes.net/messier/xtra/similar/m1000.txt

Binary and carbon stars are always good targets:

http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/dblstar/dblstar2.html

http://www.nckas.org/carbonstars/

http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/peculiar2/carbon.htm

Don't forget about Jupiter towards the end of your session.

Dave Mitsky

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* What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf 06/22/09 07:31 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? Achernar   06/22/09 10:52 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   06/22/09 11:25 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   06/22/09 11:30 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? Dave MitskyModerator   06/22/09 11:47 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   06/23/09 09:00 AM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? PG Lewis   06/23/09 08:38 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   06/25/09 09:25 AM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? teskridg   06/28/09 05:05 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? Mike K   06/28/09 09:12 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? teskridg   07/11/09 09:39 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? Javier   06/28/09 07:11 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   07/11/09 10:28 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? mypontiac   07/12/09 01:58 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   06/23/09 08:58 AM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? Dave MitskyModerator   06/22/09 10:23 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? Ken....   06/22/09 10:40 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? NorthWolf   06/22/09 10:42 PM
. * Re: What would make nice targets for tonight? John Kocijanski   06/22/09 08:21 PM

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