Thursday, April 7, 2022

Looking for Bright Stars for Celestron Nexstar 6SE Alignment

Brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere - Sirius

Looking for Bright Stars
for Celestron Nexstar 6SE Alignment
As a reminder, the following Messier lists are available on pages of Astroimaging. If you get a clear night, seven stars may become visible in and around the Orion Nebula, enough for Celestron's Two star Alignment. Run an experiment to see what happens.

Why are we looking for bright stars? Urban astronomy typically has severe light pollution. The largest cities also deal with air pollution and particulate matter suspension. This is conducive to the forming of upper atmospheric haze. Two nights ago, Venus was bright and visible. However, dimmer Mars and Saturn were not obvious and almost not visible. Blame it on several factors, air pollution, light pollution, haze, and planets that are far from opposition. This applies to large cities with populations of 3 million or more.

Main Messier List
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/08/messier-object-list.html

Messier List by Constellation
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/08/messier-objects-by-constellation.html

Messier Objects by Type
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/08/messier-objects-by-type.html

Messier List by Magnitude
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/08/messier-objects-by-magnitude.html

List of Supernova
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/08/find-supernova.html

List of Bright Stars
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/08/bright-stars.html

Other Interest
Top Ten Brightest Messier Objects
"Deep Sky for light polluted skies"

Object Catalogs - The Constellations
Map of the constellations
List of the constellations
Constellations in order of size

The Deep Sky
The Messier objects
Browse object catalogs
List of the 200 brightest open clusters
List of the 200 brightest globular clusters
List of the 200 brightest galaxies

Stars
List of the 200 brightest stars
List of the 200 closest stars

Your Sky - Solar System Objects

Planets
Comets
Asteroids

The Deep Sky
Visibility of the Constellations
Deep Sky Objects

Sky Diagrams
Diagram of objects in your sky
Rising and setting times
Altitude/time charts
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Find Messier Objects by Type

List of Other Objects

Messier Objects by Constellation

Supernovae in Messier Catalog Galaxies

Messier in Photos

Main Messier Object List

Messier Objects by Magnitude

Best Non-Messier Objects