Best Planisphere!

Greets,

I'm still finding my way around. I got a Chandler planisphere to help me find DSOs. I've had a great time viewing things like M31 (still can't find M33 to save my life), Double Cluster, M42, M45 and several other fantastic objects. Unfortunately my Chandler only shows a few Messier and NGC objects.

I'd like to find a Plansisphere that has the bulk if not all of the Messiers, and some of the more visible NGCs as well. Another nice feature would be to show the visual magnitude of the object and maybe the size of the object. If they really wanted to make it easy, maybe a little icon that indicates if it's visible by binocs or if requires a scope.

Anyone know of any planispheres that come close to this? Obviously there's only so much you can put on one, but this would be ideal to me. I sure like using Nightwatch, but it would be nice to only have to have a plansisphere out.

Thanks,
Matt

I've never seen a planisphere w/all M objects on the front. That would be probably get so crowded as to be very hard to use. I use the laminated Sky & Telescope Messier card
http://www.buytelescopes.com/search.asp?q=Messier+Card&s=&x=15&y=10

http://www.camcor.com/cgi-bin/bcatalog.cgi/area=tel&id=1048631612

as well as Orion's Deep Space Map.
http://www.telescope.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=15&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=6&iSubCat=28&iProductID=15

The DeepMap is a little deceptive in that it's marketed as being laminated, but is really more like a very thin plastic paper. Even still, it has it's place in the gear box until you move up to something like the Cambridge Star Atlas or Burham's some years down the road.

Mike Swaim

Check out the Firefly Planisphere Deluxe. I happened to have recently stumbled across Brian Tung's review of it on s.a.a. and this looks like one I want:

http://www.fireflybooks.com/astronomy/planispheres.html

ALL Messier objects along with a wealth of other information.