Beginners often look for a list of bright deep sky objects.
The attached MS Word file lists the 10 brightest galaxies, 10 brightest globular clusters, 10 bright open clusters, 10 bright nebulae and 10 bright planetary nebulae.
As usual, another nice compendium for people to use.
However, I would quibble on one point. I don't consider M33 bright and would rather include the Sombrero (M104) in it's place. I don't think M33's visual magnitude alone should put it in this list of bright galaxies.
Beginners often look for a list of bright deep sky objects.
The attached MS Word file lists the 10 brightest galaxies, 10 brightest globular clusters, 10 bright open clusters, 10 bright nebulae and 10 bright planetary nebulae.
Thanks Glen, that list is awesome! My 8" Dob will be arriving from Bintel in early August, so I'll be giving it a good workout
Till then I'll just have to keep using by bino's and 4.5" skyrover
Thanks everyone for your comments. I plan to do a book on James Dunlop's catalogue one day. http://picasaweb.google.com.au/dunlop1826/Dunlop28#
Rob, M104 is better in a telescope but M33 is better in binoculars from here, however M33 is lower in the sky for you and fainter.
These are some of the galaxies that have high surface brightness: M 104, NGC 3115, NGC 4699 and NGC 1553.
Here are 10 large planetary nebulae, all south of dec +50: (size > 90", mag < 12)
NAME, SIZE in arcsec, Mag
NGC 246, 240x210, 10.4
NGC 1360, 460x320, 9.6
NGC 1514, 136x121, 10.9
NGC 4361, 93x37, 11.0
NGC 5189, 185x130, 9.5
IC 4406, 100x37, 10.2
NGC 6781, 111x109, 11.6
M 27, 480x340, 7.1, Dumbbell
IC 5148/50, 120, 11.0
NGC 7293, 880x720, 7.6, Helix
I looked at the planetary nebulae NGCs 7293, 1360, 246, 1514, IC 5150, NGCs 2818, 2440, 2438, 1535, 2392, 7662, 7009 and 6818 this morning. (listed from large to small). I also looked at Abell 21 with a 12" Dob and a 21mm EP. Abell 21 was large and very faint with an OIII filter and with a UHC filter.
The attached wikisky image shows Abell 21 with a 28' field. Wikisky.org images of all the NGC PN are at https://picasaweb.google.com/1100488...Jm95-XF98SCggE
I thought I'd posted a request yesterday Glen.
However since I can't find it I guess I must be mistaken so here it is.
May I use your top ten in the Event Horizon Ezine (Southern astronomical Society's magazine)?
I'll give full credit of course. It's a very useful list for folks and excellent as a tour for beginners