Recording Herschel and Messier sights

[Steve922]

Anyone have a spreadsheet or any other method of electronically ticking off and dating/commenting on each entry when working through a list such as the Messier or Herschel lists?

Or do you just give the entry a simple tick?

Steve

[Sunwind]

i'd like something like this aswell if there is anything, although it could easily just be done as you do them 1-by-1 and do it yourself I guess

[Merlin66]

Have you considered AstroPlanner?

This is a fully featured planning and observation recording package.

You can make up observing lists from any/ all of the included 200 catalogues; It can even control your GOTO and Canon DSLR... A majic piece of work from Paul Rodman!

AstroPlanner

[acey]

You can find Excel spreadsheets of the Herschel 400 lists (and the full Herschel catalogue) here:

Astronomical Catalogs in Excel

[Doc]

You can find Excel spreadsheets of the Herschel 400 lists (and the full Herschel catalogue) here:

Astronomical Catalogs in Excel

Amazing stuff his observation reports are fantastic.

[Steve922]

Excellent stuff guys - its just what I wanted. Thanks all.

Steve

[CaptPaul]

I have a excel sheet for the messier objects contains maps area for sketches or pics and little information space but i havent got winzip on work comp and cant send .xls file as its too big so if you wanna take a look i could email it to you?

[dobserver]

This is what I use for recording the Messier objects. Don't believe what it says about it not working with vista - works fine for me.

TUMOL

Steph

Edit - this is where I downloaded it from.

http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/tumol.html

[Steve922]

I have a excel sheet for the messier objects contains maps area for sketches or pics and little information space but i havent got winzip on work comp and cant send .xls file as its too big so if you wanna take a look i could email it to you?

Yes, I'd like to see it. My address is in my profile.

Thanks,

Steve

[Steve922]

No, it isn't. I can't see any way to put it there, either so I'll PM it to you. I feel sure it used to be there.

Steve

[CaptPaul]

Thanks for the PM have sent that over to you. hope it helps. you may want to add stuff onto it or change it about as ive kept it fairly basic as well to be honest i dont understand alot of the stuff you see on some charts on the net lol.

anyway feel free to change it etc

[acey]

I just came across this site which has Messier and other lists in various formats with finder charts etc - very useful.

http://www.ngc891.com/index.php

[Andrew]

Does anyone have experience of Astroplanner v2? I saw that this would have more options for logging observations/showing sketches etc but I don't know exactly what. I wrote myself some simple software to do what I want - mainly to compare my observations/sketches with others (inc. photos) side by side, with some controls over image brightness and contrast (sketch intercomparison can be tricky without this). This only took a few hours to write, but it will take a while to put together the data/images for the whole NGC!

Anyone know of existing software that's set up for this sort of side by side comparison of obs with existing obs reports and images/sketches already archived?