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Old 22-08-2006, 06:03 AM
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56 popular objects

I just added two more catalogues to the previous post.
There are now 8 southern lists in my survey to find the most popular objects.

1. Lacaille's "Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky" 1751-2
2. James Dunlop's Catalog of southern Deep Sky Objects. 1826
3. The Jack Bennett Catalog of Southern Deep-Sky Objects
4. John Caldwell's Best Sky Objects from SAAO Latitude. (South Africa)
5. 110 Deep-Sky High Lights
the above 5 lists are at
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/similar/similar.html
6. Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes:
A Handbook for Amateur Observers (2nd ed)
A southern extension to the Messier Catalogue, page 416.
7. The AAQs BRIGHT SOUTHERN DEEP SKY OBJECTS
http://www.aaq.org.au/deepsky_AAQ.htm
8. Astronomical League Southern Sky Telescopic Club
http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclu...y/sskylist.htm

The following 56 objects were in 4 or more of the above 8 lists.

NGCs
55 104 253 288 300 362 1097 1291 1313 1316
1365 1553 1566 1763 1851 2070 2477 2516 2547 2808
3114 3115 3132 3201 3242 3293 3372 3532 3621 3766
3918 4755 4833 4945 5128 5139 5189 5281 5286 5927
5986 6025 6067 6231 6362 6388 6397 6441 6541 6723
6744 6752 7009 7293 7793 and IC 2602
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