Observing Guide

By Deborah Scherrer

Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 by Deborah Scherrer, Castro Valley, CA  94552.  Permission for personal use only is granted.

Introduction

     Getting Started with Observing

     Setting Up the Telescope

     Taking Care of Your Telescope

     What Are the Telescope Parts?

Observing

      The Moon

      The Sun

The Planets:

     Venus

     Mars

     Jupiter

     Saturn

Deep Sky Objects:

     Sirius

    The Orion Nebula

    The Pleiades

    Mizar, a Double Star

    The Double Cluster

    M81 & M82 Galaxies

(more to come, as Ms. Scherrer writes them)

Observing Pages (for record-keeping)

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