Messier Marathon Charts

Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by by theStarHopper

The Messier Marathon is coming up.  The weekends of March 26th and April 1st are the best weekends to try the marathon.  I have uploaded the charts I use for the Messier Marathon.

Messier Telrad Charts

Messier Search list

Messier Charts

Map of all Messier Objects

A lot of the data came from Seds @ http://seds.org/messier/  and the Messier Map came from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Messier_objects

Astronomical League’s Carbon Star Club

Posted on March 21st, 2011 by by theStarHopper

The Astronomical league has a new observing club for Carbon Stars.  I am currently working on this list and it is challenging but fun.

They Astronomical League does not have charts available yet but I created my own here.

For more info see the AL’s site here.