/ // Perseus v1.2 // by Eric Smith (c)2006 // Freeware / TITLE "Perseus" AUTO SELECT TEXT "Perseus" "The Rescuer of Andromeda" USER 01:42:24 +51d34m00s "PN M76" "Lil Dumbell Neb" "One of the faintest of the Messier objects. Faint halo surrounding the object" USER 01:58:24 +55d29m00s "OC NGC 744" "" "A nice small and quite compact cluster." "This is a good time to Synch your telescope - Center the object & hold ENTER " "for 5 seconds and release." USER 02:19:00 +57d09m00s "OC NGC 869,884" "Double Cluster" "NGC869 does not contain as many evolved stars as NGC884 " USER 02:33:00 +58h44m00s "Open Cluster" "Czernik 8" "" USER 02:33:36 +57d32m00s "OC NGC 957" "" "20 stars w/some very faint glow. Slightly concentrated." " Centered on a nice unequal double, magnitudes 10 & 12." USER 01:37:18 +4655d59m00s "Open Cluster" "" "Bright, N-E elongated cluster. 30 stars mags 7...13, within 15'. Several double stars." " One orange in the middle, rest of the stars light blue or white. Slightly concentrated" " towards the W and SE tips. " USER 02:16:48 +57d03m00s "Double Star" "" "STT 25 Sep = 1.5 min ." USER 02:40:30 +39d03m00s "Galaxy NGC 1023" "" "Bright barred lenticular galaxy. Apparently" " forms a group with other nearby galaxies. A brighter, elongated central bar resides" " within a broader haze. At the center lies a starlike core. Larger instruments will" " reveal NGC 1023A, a faint companion that lies off the eastern end " USER 02.42.00 +42d47m00s "OC M34" "NGC 1039" "60 stars of weak concentration. Look for double star with sep = 20 sec" USER 02:51:00 +55d53m00s "Double Star" "" "Miram, eta Persei, gold with blue companion, sep = 28 arc sec." USER 03:08:48 +52d20m00s "Double Star" "" "STF 331 Seperation = 12 arc sec" USER 03:08:02 +40m58d00s "Var Star Algol" "Beta Persei" "2.87 day period" USER 03:14:42 +47d15m00s "OC NGC 1245" "" "200 stars Faint cloud of minute stars, bordered by" "a pentagon." USER 03:22:00 +49d00m00s "OC " "AlphaPerseiGrp" "Alpha Persei with its background of the cluster Mellote 20 / Collinder39" " - 100 stars - very rich" USER 03:31:42 +37d20m00s "OC NGC 1342" "" "30 stars over over a large field." USER 03:38:18 +44d48m00s "Double Star" "" "S 430 Seperation = 4 arc sec" USER 03:44:30 +32d17m00s "RN IC 248" "" "Small cluster of 20 stars with nebulosity." USER 03:49:24 +52d40m00s "OC NGC 1444" "" "15 stars not well detached." USER 04:00:07 +36d37m00s "EN NGC 1499" "California Neb" "2 deg by .75 deg, very faint. Use low power and filter" USER 04:03:24 +51d19m00s "PN NGC 1491" "" "Small, bright, has a fainter extended envelope of .5 degree. Two strong" " wisp form a narrow V shape." USER 04:07:24 +38d01m00s "Double Star" "" "BU 545 seperation = 4 min." USER 04:10:00 +49d31m00s "OC NGC 1513" "" "50 stars detached but weak concentration. Large stars on outside form the " "letter D ." USER 04:20:54 +50d15m00s "OC NGC 1545" "" "20 stars detached." USER 04:32:00 +43d51m00s "OC NGC 1582" "" "20 stars not well detached." USER 04:33:24 +43d03m00s "Double Star" "" "SHJ 44 seperation = 4 min." USER 04:36:18 +47d21m00s "Double Star" "" "S451 seperaton = 1 min." #END