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- Hommage for Anton Kutter - a tribute to Anton Kutter, inventor of the Schiefspiegler, also on the occasion of his 115th birthday, Biberach/Riss, June 15-16-17, 2018 - organized by the University of Gent andVolkssterrenwacht Armand Pien
International Kutter & ATM Days: Presentation Archive - Our account of the Kutter Days 2018
- David Stevick's Weird Telescope pages recovered - reconstruction in progress!
- Comet Halley (1P/Halley) has passed its aphelion on December 9, 2023 or December 7, 2023 (depending on authority), and is now closing in again, for its 2061 apparition.
- The Messier Marathon community mourns the loss of Don Machholz (October 7, 1952 - August 9, 2022), co-inventor and record-breaking Messier Marathoner.Don Machholz commemorative site
- Messier Marathoners: If not already done so, pleasecontribute yourresults! (2025 or earlier)
- Messier Marathon Holders: Please notify us of any scheduled events for the Messier Marathon 2025!
- A.J. Crayon's Analysis of Messier Marathons, as of April 27, 2015 - A.J.'s First Analysis as of 2011
- Messier Features
- Supernovae in Messier Catalog Galaxies - Supernova 2023dbc in M108 and 2023ixf in M101
- Perseverance Mars 2020 Rover and Ingenuity helicopter doing science on Mars surface
- Observe Mars during its2024-2025 apparition!
Webmasters: Semi-recent updates for linking our pages
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## Major Projects
The Messier Pages at SEDS
* Messier Marathon homepage
Constellation Pagesand Maps Pages Mirror at SEDSof Chris Kronberg's MAA
## Other pages and services
NGC Online: Searchable index for the NGC 2000 catalog, with some features.
Spider's HOT links (Astronomy, space, and other)
A Guide to the Deepsky Astronomy Resources at SEDS
Some hopefully useful lists:
* List of Sites Holding Images of the SL9-Jupiter crash, former "Preliminary List" (also in the original plain text version)
* List of Observatories making Astronomical Photographs publicly available. [plain text]
* List of Messier Goodies (plain text); List of Common Names for Messier Objects (plain text)
* List of Deep Sky Object Names (plain text)
* Orbiting Telescopes: Astronomy from Space;Launch Sequence
* International Space Station Schedule;ISS Historic Flights;List of all Space Shuttle Flights
- historicUnofficial Shuttle Launch Schedule
Some more informations:
* Unusual telescopes, especially Schiefspiegler after Anton Kutter (1903-1985)

* SEDS Mars link and exploration page (including scheduled Mars missions)
* Perseverance Mars 2020 Rover
* InSight
* Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN)
* Mars Science Laboratory (MSL, Curiosity)
* Phoenix
* Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
* Mars Exploration Rovers,Mars Express andNozomi
* 2001 Mars Odyssey
* Mars Climate Orbiter andMars Polar Lander
* Mars Pathfinder andMars Global Surveyor
* Nasa and Stanford scientists have announced evidence for Life on Mars
* Mars Mission Launch Sequence: All the historic and scheduled Mars probes.
* Mars Oppositions -Mars 2024/2025
OS/2: Most of the stuff here is astronomy and space, but there's also a bit on IBM's OS/2:
* Spider/2: My OS/2 info; OS/2 overview;Guide to Astronomical and Space-Related OS/2 Software;my PS/2 page
* Historic homepage of the historic "Interessengemeinschaft Astronomie an der Universität Konstanz" (Astronomy Interest Group at the University of Constance) [also in German] -their Astronomical Images [Comet Hyakutake 1996;Comet Hale-Bopp 1997]
## Other interesting stuff
### Astronomy
* The hottest Messier stuff
* Other hot stuff (Astronomy, space, and other);
* My comet link page (SL9, Hale-Bopp, Hyakutake, and others)
* Leos Ondra's gallery of stellar spectra
* Leos Ondra'sStarClock program (stellar evolution in HRD demo)
* Supernovae Stuff: Recent, Messier Galaxies', and Historical Supernovae.
* The Local Group of Galaxies
* The Milky Way Globular Clusters (now 157 known, and counting ..)
* The First Known Variable Stars
* Naming Stars - note there isNO way to get stars named for payment...
* Miscellaneous astronomical fragments
* My personal astronomical activities
### Other
Some Arizona stuff
* Nice Webpages for Lynx (Web hints)
* Some Earthlings (animals) - Spiders in Space
- Send me info on beautiful images of astronomical objects and space stuff (Messiers, above all) not yet on SEDS !
- Some personal information
If there is no response to your email for some time ..
**Note:**Because of massive amounts of work pending, responses to any kind of correspondence may be significantly delayed (actually so significantly that I think this note is required - don't wonder or worry if it should take months in some cases). Nevertheless, your input is appreciated. Also, updates of these webpages are still in slow mode with a long queue of stuff waiting to be worked in; sorry for any inconveniences this may cause.
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