Appendix:
Check Appendix B and Appendix C for names of galaxies and constellations
WARNING:
NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN WITH THE NAKED EYES OR WITH
ATELESCOPE(UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER SOLAR FILTER). PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE EYE DAMAGE MAY RESULT.
TIP:
You can define and save new celestial objects in the database.
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Chapter. 2 Select And Slew
After you have finished the set up and align steps in chapter 1 go to the main menu. Select “Select and slew.” Now you can select any celestial objects in the database and GoToNovaTM will take you
Check astronomy books and magazines such as “Sky and Telescope.” Familiarize yourself with the names in the night sky. Use the arrow buttons to move your cursor and press ENTER to select an object.
2.1Planets, sun, moon
This menu includes the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
WARNING: NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN WITH THE NAKED EYES OR WITH A TELESCOPE (UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER SOLAR FILTER). PERMANENT AND IRREVERSIBLE EYE DAMAGE MAY RESULT.
2.2Deep Sky Objects
This menu includes objects outside our Solar system such as galaxies, star clusters, quasars, nebulae, etc.
2.2.1Named Deep Sky Objects
This menu contains 60 named deep sky objects. If you know the names of the objects you can use this menu.
2.2.2Messier Catalogue
Contains 110 objects from the Messier catalogue.
2.2.3NGC-IC Catalogue
Contains 7840 objects from the
2.2.4UGC Catalogue
Contains 129,939 objects from the UGC catalogue.
2.2.5MCG Catalogue
Contains 29,004 objects from the MCG catalogue.
2.2.6CaldWell Catalogue
Contains 109 objects from the CaldWell catalogue.
2.2.4Abel Catalogue
Contains 2712 objects from the Abel catalogue.
2.2.4Herschel Catalogue
Contains 400 objects in Herschel catalogue.
2.3Comets
Contains up to 256 comets.
2.4Asteroids
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