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Old 22-06-2011, 08:47 PM
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DSO star-hopping directions

Hi guys,

I was just looking through some recent threads and was wondering if there are any sites or programs with in-depth star-hopping directions to some fainter DSO's from their close bright stars??

I'm currently just pointing my scope in the general area as depicted in Stellarium and scanning around which is pretty hit-and-miss. But i recently found an old article about M104 which gave in-depth directions from Eta Corvi (i.e: look for the Stargate asterism 4deg northwest of Eta Corvi, then look for the three pointer stars, follow them to the Sombrero, etc) and was able to follow them easily.

Wondering if there is anywhere i can get more of these directions??

Davin
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