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Astronomy Resources

This is a repository of useful resources I have found or developed through the years. This page is broken up into the following sections:


Yoder’s Resources

Here you will find links, documents, and files to resources I have developed through the years.


Yoder’s Astronomical Targets for Observation (Revision 2024-06) – The list I developed below is for the Phoenix metro area(33 degrees latitude, with UTC of -7hrs), so should work pretty well be good for folks living in roughly the same latitude (+/- 5 degrees) and adjusting for your time zone. The list was developed from various books and online list. I then filtered the list for small to medium size telescopes (5″ – 11″) . The list was developed in the AstroPlanner application and then ported to various other formats that can be downloaded and utilized. Not all objects exported to some formats, and this is why the number of targets may vary between list. The list includes the following items:

  • 59 Carbon Stars
  • 55 Double Stars
  • 17 Triple Stars
  • 29 Multiple Stars
  • 51 Galaxies
  • 50 Open Clusters
  • 39 Globular Clusters
  • 7 Dark Nebula
  • 11 Emission Nebula
  • 7 Planetary Nebula
FormatExtensionDownloadTargetsComments
AstroPlanner.apdFile Download Icon260
Sky Safari Pro.skylistFile Download Icon223Not all items exported from Astro Planner to Sky Safari
Excel.xlsx260Sorted in order of: Constellation | Type | Transit Time |
PDF.pdfPDF Icon260Sorted in order of: Constellation | Type | Transit Time |

Online Resources and Articles

Provided below is a list of various online resources


Useful Product websites

This list of websites are various vendors that supply equipment for astronomy.