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Avoid SINGLE stars (the interest in single stars is to monitor their changes or produce catalogues) but GALAXIES, NEBULAE and CLUSTERS are well worth looking at. Select one of these from the table below. They are all fairly BRIGHT and in the NORTHERN sky.
When submitting the JOB to the ROBOTIC TELESCOPE, give the object as an m number, e.g. m31. The telescope will know that this is the ANDROMEDA NEBULA (you may have called it this in the "OBJECT NAME" request box).
GALAXIES, CLUSTERS and
NEBULAE
m Description Brightness Sizes are
number Magnitude in arc mins
(Name if any) (bright=low
number)
101 Spiral galaxy, full face 8 22 x 22
view
51 Spiral galaxy, angle view 9 12 x 6
106 Spiral galaxy, edge view 9 20 x 6
81 Spiral galaxy, angle view 7 16 x 10
33 Spiral galaxy, face view (a 6 60 x 40
bit big for the telescope
(Triffid) field of view)
31 Spiral galaxy, angle view (a 4 160 x 40
(Andromeda) bit big for the telescope
field of view)
108 Spiral nebula, edge view 10 8 x 2
92 Globular cluster 7 12
13 Globular cluster 6 23
(Hercules
Cluster)
3 Globular cluster 7 19
39 Open cluster 5 32
35 Open cluster 6 29
36 Open cluster 6 16
37 Open cluster 6 24
34 Open cluster 6 30
If you are obtaining the image of an OPEN CLUSTER, request TWO jobs: one with a RED filter (just "R" in the filter box) and one with a BLUE filter (just "B" in the filter box). The stars that are brighter in the B filter images are hotter and often younger.
