List of celestial objects that can be viewed from Bangalore

Most messiers except the difficult lot of Virgo galaxies, M72, M76, M108, M97 etc should be possible.

Non-messier bright NGCs of the like of perseus double cluster, Omega Centauri etc should also number quite a few. Use something like Cartes Du ciel / Stellarium.

Anything thats moderately bright... About Mag 8 or brighter in magnitude and mag 13 and not fainter in surface brightness and not in extreme northerly or southerly declinations should be possible without too many problems. You may also be able to do the tougher lot of objects as you gain experience and better your eye acuity.

100+ objects without a problem IMO.

- p6
" True inspiration always comes to fulfill reason and is always in harmony with it " - Swami Vivekananda

Pavan is pretty right...

A full list will be really long - at least 50 objects are easily visible from Bangalore.

At this time of the year, you could try out Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, Mizar (an interesting double star), Omega Centauri (south Bangalore preferable), Hercules Cluster (M13), M10 and M12.

If you can stay up a little late (about 11:00 PM), Ptolemy's Cluster (M7), Butterfly Cluster (M6), Lagoon Nebula and Cluster (M8), Sagittarius Cluster (M22), M21, M25, M23, M24, Swan Nebula (M17), NGC 6231 and the Ring Nebula (M57) should be possible targets.

If you wake up early in the morning (4:00 AM or so), you should be able to catch Andromeda Galaxy (M13), M15, M2, Wild Duck Cluster (M11).

Is your telescope a Goto / computer controlled telescope? If so, your telescope should be able to automatically point to many of these objects if you can set it up correctly.

Otherwise, you could manually locate these objects using a starchart / sky atlas or using (free) software such as Cartes du Ciel (http://www.stargazing.net/astropc) or Stellarium. If you use Linux, you can check if KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars) is installed. You can alternatively use http://www.calsky.com which is internet based and does not require any installation.

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Akarsh Simha

Student, BTech Engg. Physics,

IITMadras. 

ATMed 8" f/8 telescope

Nikon FM10 Camera 

thanks Akarsh and Pavan. Thats a lot of good information to start with. Yeah, the telescope i have has goto (Meade DS-2130AT-LNT 5.1" go-to reflector). I will try to set it up this week and update you guys with the progress :) thanks again.. -kiran

i just joined this club so please advice what type of telescope to buy to watch nightsky so (A NOMINAL PRICE telescope)which will sout my budjet thank u

i am already member in space.com and myspace.com imaginova cummunity but i am very very happy to join our indian family   helo to every one and iam waiting for the reply from U all thank U 

Satish, You can contact Mr Dilip Kumar / Mr Sathya Kumar who make telescopes here in B'lore. Please contact me to get in touch with them

- p6
" True inspiration always comes to fulfill reason and is always in harmony with it " - Swami Vivekananda