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Greetings, observer! Use this page to plan out your current observing sessions. Offered below are Tools for Planning, Messier Marathon pages, the Messier and Hershel Lists for the each month.

Viewing Month
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Messier Objects Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier Messier
Hershel Objects Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel Herschel

Other lists
Varied Objects Monthly list of selected objects - beginner to advanced.
Eye-candy The Eye Candy List, by Jane Smith, Bob Jardine, and Jamie Dillon
The RASC's Finest N.G.C. Objects List
Astro-Concentration Pairs of objects of the same type (preliminary)
Stars Double Stars
Espin Catalog of Red Stars
Colorful Double Stars (from the Cloudy Nights forum)
Challenge objects The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's Deep Sky Challenge List
Herschel II

Observing Tools
Deep Sky Database - observing list generator
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Moon
Tools for planning your observing sessions!
Asterisms Web-Page
Sketching at the Eyepiece
The new NGC 2000 catalog online browser