I am sharing my observing program for the constellation of Virgo. It is for all contributing members as a thank you for supporting our community! It also may be purchased for $5.00. Thanks for supporting the site as all money goes to offset the cost of apps and other items used to bring this material to you!
Welcome to the "North Galactic Pole." While the constellation of Coma Berenices may appear faint to the naked eye, it serves as a window out of our own Milky Way galaxy and into the deep universe beyond. This roadmap is designed to guide you through the "Tresses of Berenice," a region of sky uniquely rich in extragalactic wonders.
Because this constellation sits far from the obscuring dust of our own galactic plane, it offers an unobstructed view of two massive cosmic structures: the Melotte 111 open cluster and the northern reaches of the Virgo-Coma Supercluster.
This program is organized into four levels of increasing difficulty:
Beginner: Bright Messier objects and naked-eye star clusters perfect for any equipment.
Intermediate: Deep-sky targets that reveal structural details like bars and dust lanes in mid-sized telescopes.
Advanced: Elusive objects including "metal-poor" globulars and galaxies with faint tidal streams.
Challenging: The extreme frontier, focusing on the dense "swarm" of the Abell 1656 cluster and ultra-diffuse dark matter galaxies.
Whether you are using binoculars to scan the queen's hair; a large-aperture telescope or imaging to dive millions of light-years into the Coma Cluster, this roadmap will help you check off the finest jewels this constellation has to offer.
This list is in two (three for members) parts. The first part shows what the objects and their magnitude (estimated). The next part gives you an observing log. The third part (for contrirbuting members only) shows you the objects by RA and Dec so you can hunt them in similar parts of the sky and contains my notes on the observations of these objects.
Here is the LINK for the free version.
