BYA Class Ten

• Outline

• Telescope Mountings:
  • Alt-Azimuth
    • (Dobsonian:  simple Newtonian reflector on a simple alt-azimuth mount)
  • Equatorial
  • Computerized

• Finder Scope!

• Star Charts
   
• Objects for Viewing with Small Telescopes
• Solar System
  • Moon; On line Lunar Atlas; Download Lunar Atlas
  • Sun (use a solar filter)
  • Saturn
  • Jupiter
• 'Deep Sky'  Objects  (start with the Messier Objects)
  • These Objects are all in our Milky Way Galaxy
    • Star Clusters:   Pleiades, Double Cluster
    • Globular Clusters:  M13 in Hercules
    • Nebula (birth place of stars):  M42 the Orion Nebula, Rosette Nebula
    • Planetary Nebula (dying sun like stars throwing off their outer atmosphere):  M57 the Ring Nebula in Lyra
    • Super Nova Remnants (the debris of exploded stars): M1 the Crab Nebula in Taurus
    • Double Stars:  Alberio in Cygnus, Polaris
  • These Objects are all BEYOND our Milky Way Galaxy
    • Magellanic Clouds (nearly galaxies, easy with the naked eye, but you must be south of the Equator)
    • Andromeda Galaxy:  M31 in Andromeda
    • Whirlpool Galaxy: M51 in Canes Venatici (just below Big Dipper)
    • Clusters of Galaxies: Heart of the Virgo Cluster
       
• Light Pollution:
  • The World
  • The International Dark Sky Association

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