There is a link in the attached spreadsheet to a web site one can use to print telrad star charts, useful for locating Messier Objects. The nice thing about this spreadsheet is that you can quickly sort it by number (hence 001, 002, etc), constellation, and so on. If you use this just delete my dates and references--I left them to serve as an example. Here is the star chart link: http://www.solarius.net/Pages/Articles/dbArticle.aspx?artid=messier_finders Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 3/17/15, Nick Monkman <nmonkman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Subject: [SAS] Messier Marathon tips To: "SAS" <sas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 11:12 PM http://www.spokaneastronomical.org/2015/03/marathon-tips/ Just some random thoughts from someone with very little experience. I'd like to hear others' thoughts and opinions. Of course it's all academic if the clouds hang around...
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Messier.xls
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