Any Advise.............

[Harb]

Hi eveyone,

Merry Christmas to you all seeing as I have you here!!!

Now my Question,
Does anyone know of a complete Cat/List of all the celestal objects in photo form??
Sort of like a phone book of images of the various objects in the sky.
Pages of tumbnail type shots of the objects with a short explanation and specs etc......
I would like a hard copy of this......not to worried about price.
Would be a nice companion to my Goto System.

cheers
John

[stephenmcnelley]

I dont know Harb, but their must be hardcopy stuff out there for sure.

I depend on Skymap pro 10 astro software for thumbnail images and related object info, if it doesnt have an image in its files it will download one of the net by request and they are usually nice images. Can drive scopes too.

Local library ?

Cheers,
steve

[Harb]

Yeah I hope they make something in book form......sometimes I just like to thumb through some "real" paper......its nice.
It would be great to just look up objects via a picture and punch it into the goto then see the real thing!!
Call me lazy :)

cheers
John

[jjjnettie]

John,
You can make a pretty good printout of all the Messier objects with TUMOL. The Ultimate Messier Object Log. You can choose what will be on each page, eg. photo, finder chart, sketch circle, description etc. Download it for free.

Mine are in plastic sleeves to protect them.

[h0ughy]

Got a link JJJ
:shrug:

[acropolite]

http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/tumol.html freshly googled just for you Dave....:P

[jjjnettie]

Thanks for that Phil.

[jjjnettie]

Here's a screen shot of the M1 page in Master Page setting.
Also of it in Picture View mode.
There are many different ways to view, organise and print the list.:thumbsup:

TSOL, The Simple Observing Log is also useful for astrophotographers and visual observers.
They made one for the Caldwell objects but I couldn't get it up and running.

[h0ughy]

ta thanks JJJ and Phil

[stephenmcnelley]

Likewise, thanks for the info jeanette and Acropolite, better than a big book out in the field.

[Harb]

You are all legends!!
This is just the type of thing I was looking for............I will give it a spin :)

cheers
John

[Ric]

A great website JJJ, thanks for the link Phil.

cheers

[spacezebra]

Thanks guys - this is fantastic.

Cheers Petra