Top Ten Messier Objects

for the month January 1997

Look at our most popular Messier object pages ! Here you find the top 10

accessed Messier Object pages; counted are accesses to the main page for

each object.

Starting from June 1996, this Top 10 file is generated by a perl script,

and therefore has become a bit more acurate. However, as there are probably

some accesses missed or counted twice, so that I do not claim this is a

really acurate ranking.

The acuracy of the January listing profits from SEDS’ success in generating

a longer-term logfile, so that probably a higher and more consistent

coverage of accesses could be achieved.

Overall, the traffic was going up at the Messier pages: The M31 object page

was accessed over 3100 times (more than 100 accesses daily), and even the

10th-rank M17 page had over 1000 accesses. The least accessed Messier object

page was that of M93, which had still 126

logged accesses.

Top ten objects in January 1997:

with links to the Top 10 charts for all previous months

Last Modification: 8 Feb 1998, 21:50 MET