CELESTIAL OBJECTS included in "EYEPIECE" Program - Main Menu Copyright (c) 1991-2007, Stephen R. Waldee - All Rights Reserved The articles linked below are intended to be enhancements to our old DOS software program for amateur astronomers and telescope users, called Eyepiece. The databases in the program contain about 1,000 objects, including lists of multiple stars, globular and open clusters, diffuse and planetary nebulae, and galaxies. The objects and data were chosen from the selections of Professor John Sanford, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, who covered them in his 1989 book, Observing the Constellations (Fireside / Simon & Schuster), an excellent though sadly now out-of-print publication featuring a wide variety of celestial objects of interest to visual observers and photographers. We'd been using the book since it was first published, working primarily at our site (on private property) at 3,400 feet above sea level in a mountain range south of San Jose, California. When our program "Eyepiece" was created, we were very pleased that Prof. Sanford agreed to permit us to use his data and to quote comments about many items. Our software is capable of analyzing any of the database objects, producing a "visibility prediction" based on complex algorithms that are described in detail in this article. Many of the items include commentary, either by John Sanford or author Waldee (or both.) We have taken these old descriptions of ours, based on observations made in the 1980s and early 90s (after an experience of about 20 years as an observer using at least a 10" aperture telescope), and have updated them in this new series of web pages, including small thumbnail images not present in our software, and and with handy links to other commentaries on this website, and to the "Deep Sky Browser" Pages of Mikkel Steine, which may be used to obtain the celestial coordinates, and to produce handy finder charts that you may customize. Some of these items have recently be reviewed again with new telescopes after 2005, and are included in our "Faint Fuzzies" observing reports; if so, we have added appropriate hyperlinks. The articles in that series tend to cover more obscure and faint ones; these selections from "Eyepiece" are more popular items sought by beginning and intermediate amateurs. We wanted to be sure that even if our readers cannot use -- or don't wish to try -- old DOS software like our program, that the information contained in "Eyepiece" could still be of use to observers. All celestial objects are listed in ascending order of right ascension. Enjoy! Main Menu of Lists of Celestial Objects with Descriptions, featured in "Eyepiece" Open Clusters  |  Globular Clusters  |  Galaxies  |  Diffuse Nebulae  |  Planetary Nebulae Complete Messier Catalogue of 110 Objects |  Multiple Stars Press BACK key, or click for the Full Moon Essay Menu or the Eyepiece Page. Last edited: Wednesday 15 August 2007 at 1:29 am. Copyright © 2007 Stephen R. Waldee - All Rights Reserved. All Trademarks or Copyrights are © or Property of Their Respective Copyright Holders. Copyright statement: permission is not granted for reprinting these articles anywhere. Aside from brief quotes of a few sentences allowed under "fair use" permissions that may be allowed by copyright law, we do not sanction the use of these articles on other websites or in newsletters, or on CD-ROM astronomy compilations. You may link to this page or to the individual articles.