September Skies offer some good pportunities for deep sky observing, especially hre in the dry season skies of the NT in nrthern Australia, hopefully you too will hve clear skies wherever you are in the wrld.

Globular Clusters -

Prominent in the early evening in the southern sky, or at the zenith if you are in the far southern hemisphere, is the Constellation Sagittarius (The Archer), better know as "The Teapot". Once you have picked it out in the night sky you will see the familiar teapot shape easily and certainly much easier than you will see an Archer ! This constellation and the adjacent constellations of of Ophiuchus (the serpent bearer) and Scorpius (the Scorpion) are rich in deep sky delights, especially globular clusters. The most prominent of these being the Messier Cataloged M4, M28, M22 and M55 just to name a few of the brighter ones.

What's A Messier Catalog? -

Well it goes like this, well known Comet hunter Charles Messier of 18th Century France needed to catalog objects that could be confused with comets in the small telescopes of the day. So he identified the brightest 100 or so object in the night sky (from Paris) these became M1 to M110, with the last few being added by his colleagues after is passing. So the upshot for us in the 21st century is we have a simple list of object that are quite delightful when viewed thought Amateur Telescopes that good old Charles could only dream of in the 1700's. For those of us in the southern Hemisphere the catalog has some very obvious gaps, with many delights of deep space seen from here being better than 3/4 of the objects in the Messier list !

Beyond Globular Clusters -

Of curse the delights of deep space to be sen here are not limited to Glbular Clusters though, with the Lagoon Nbula (M8), the Trifid Nebula (M20), the Egle Nebula (M16) and the Sagittarius str cloud (M24) are surely in the top 20 of all dep sky object.

So how do you fnd & see these these amazing dep space delights ?

If you are jst starting out in the richly rwarding pursuit of Astronomy & Space Scence, why not visit http://www.nightskysecrets.com/ and download your free copy of my Audio "Master the hidden secrets of the night sky". In this Audio you will find the tools you need to allow you to find the deep sky wonders written about in this article.

The article Astronomy - September Skies - What to Look For in Sagittarius? was Submitted by Ian Maclean through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Ian Maclean - Astronomy Author and Prsenter Homepage: http://www.nightskysecrets.com Blogpage: http://www.nightskysecrets.com/blog

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