These files files contain information about observing and various objects.
They are organized into sections by information catergories:
- Observing Program Briefs
- Caldwell Object Guides
- Celestial Object Briefs
- Constellation Friends
- Double Stars Guides
- Lunar Features
- Messier Object Guides
- Night Sky Activities
- Planets
- Stars
- Odds and Ends
Observing Program Briefs
- Analemma Observing Program Brief
- Arp Observing Program Brief
- Beyond Polaris Observing Program Brief
- Binocular Double Star Observig Program Brief
- Dark Nebula Observing Program Brief
- Herschel 400 Observing Program Brief
- Hydrogen-Alpha Observing Program Brief
- Planetary Nebula Observing Program Brief
- Sky Puppy Observing Program Brief
- Stellar Evolution Observing Program Brief
Caldwell Object Guides
Celestial Object Briefs
- Collinder 65
- H 3945 and NGC 2362
- La Superba
- Muscelman Cluster
- NGC 1
- NGC 147 and NGC 185
- NGC 404
- NGC 2169 – The “37” Cluster
- NGC 2903
- NGC 4435 and NGC 4438
- NGC 5907
- North American Nebula in September and October
- Patriotic Star
- Picot 1 – an asterism
- Question Mark Asterism
- Summer Solstice Star Cluster Quartet
- Umbrella Asterism
- Zodiacal Light
Constellation Friends
- Delphinus
- Lepus
- Lyra
- Musca Borealis (obsolete)
- Circlet of Pisces
- Triangulum
- The Big Dipper (Ursa Major)
Double Star Guides
Lunar Features
- Altai Scarp
- Arago Crater
- Big Moon Effect
- Gassendi Crater
- Maiden in the Moon
- Montes Recti
- O’Neill’s Bridge
- Plato Crater Curvature
- Sinus Aestruum
Messier Object Guides
- Mastering the Messier Objects:
- Explore M8
- M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy
- Pleiades – M45
- M67
- M73
Night Sky Activities
- Barnard’s Star
- Belt of Venus
- Eta AQL – Variable Star
Planets and Moons
- Galilean Moons
- Ganymede and Callisto – Naked Eye?
- Mars – retrograde
- Neptune
- Uranus
- Venus
Stars
- Achernar
- Barnard’s Star
- Canopus
- SS Cygni (variable star)
Odds and Ends
- Asterisms in Sagittarius
- At a Lunar Eclipse – Thomas Hardy
- Circumpolar Stars
- Crater Sizes – Moon
- Drift Method
- False Comet
- Harvest Moon
- Lunar Surface Area
- Moon (Lunar) Filter
- Moon / Hand Activity
- Noctua – A Closer Look
- Pin-Hole Camera Lunar Observations
- Solar Apex
- Song for the Moon
- Temperature Profile of the Solar System
- Twinkling Planets
- Twinkling Stars
- Voyager 1