Top 100 Southern DSO

[glenc (Glen)]

Observe the Top 100 Deepsky Objects in the southern skies
by Auke Slotegraaf.
http://www.psychohistorian.org/astro...kyobjects.html

Looks like an interesting list.

[glenc (Glen)]

The Southern Sky Almanack is a monthly overview of the southern skies, showing interesting daily events, times of Sun rise & set, and the visibility of the Moon, planets and bright stars. Lunar phases, the movements of planets, comets and asteroids, occurrence of meteor showers, and the circumstances of eclipses, are tabulated. Lunar occultations of stars and planets brighter than 3.5 magnitude are listed. All minor planets reaching opposition during the year, and that are brighter than 9th magnitude, are listed. Astronomical anniversaries and South African public & school holidays, are also marked on the monthly calendar pages.
http://www.psychohistorian.org/astro...-almanack.html

[stephenmcnelley]

That is a most interesting (different) link, cheers Glen.

[glenc (Glen)]

I like to make lists with fairly equal numbers of OC, GC, Neb, PN & Gx.
Auke's list has a lot of OC because all the objects in it are visible in binoculars.
"Many can be seen with the naked eye and all are visible in binoculars, so a telescope is not essential to see them."
It all depends what you want.