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.