Top Ten Messier Objects

for the month March 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.

Form January 1997, the acuracy of the listings profits from SEDS’ success

in generating a longer-term logfile, so that generally a higher and more

consistent coverage of accesses is achieved.

By the end of March 1997, the traffic of the Messier pages reached a new

high of more than 35,000 accesses daily. The M31 object page now reached an

average of about 160 accesses daily (over 4800 overall), the 10th-rank M33

page had over 1200 accesses. This month, the least accessed Messier object

page was that of M71, which had still 164

logged accesses.

Top ten objects in March 1997:

with links to the Top 10 charts for all previous months

Last Modification: 8 Feb 1998, 21:50 MET