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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
Deep sky objects "live" outside of our solar system. They consist of various celestial bodies including:
There are a few different places where deep sky objects are catalogued. The first of these was developed by Charles Messier in the 18th century. SEDS (students for the exploration and development of space) has kamagra a wonderful website explaining the history of the Messier catalogue. They also talk about the individual deep sky objects classified in this catalogue. For more information on the Messier catalogue, please visit http://www.seds.org/messier/.
The two other main catalogues are NGC (new general catalogue) and IC (index catalogue). These catalogues were put together more recently, in the late 19th century. They are also more extensive than the Messier catalogue, each having a few thousand objects, compared to Messier's 110 objects.
At the Chico Community Observatory, we tend to show mostly Messier objects, since they are generally larger and brighter than NGC or IC objects. We are always happy to observe one of the latter types if someone is interested.
*21st Century Astronomy (Hester, Burstein, Blumenthal, Greeley, Smith, Voss, and Wegner)
For more information on deep sky objects, please visit SEDS' website at www.seds.org/messier/.
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Website last updated March 16, 2006. Hosted by Anthony Watts, KMXI Radio. Webmasters Tiara Norris and Brendan Diamond. |
