Attached is a list of arguably the best
20 open clusters
20 globular clusters
20 nebulae
20 planetary nebulae and
30 galaxies
south of declination -20 degrees
SB is surface brightness. L' is length, W' is wide both in arc minutes.
Thanks for watching the power point presentation Discovering “Bright” Southern Deep-Sky Objectsand for downloading the list of 110 southern clusters, nebulae and galaxies.
James Dunlop discovered 40
John Herschel found 18
Nicolas LaCaille also found 18
William Herschel found 8 and
Chares Messier discovered 5
of the 110 southern clusters, nebulae and galaxies in the list.
The faintest objects in the list of 110 southern DSO are:
NGC 1850 an OC in the LMC
NGC 5824 an unusual small GC
The nebulae NGCs 2736, 5367, 6165 and 6334
The PN NGCs 3699, 6337 and IC 5150
And the galaxy IC 5332
I've massaged the list into a csv file for those of you that might want to open it as a spreadsheet (e.g. in libreoffice) to sort and query it based on surface brightness, object type or whatever.
Most images are from wikisky.org with a 56' field.
The PN have a 28' field. Some PN images are from the HST.
The SMC image is from Bert. (IIS avandonk)
The file names are usually NGC numbers.
This is a repeat copy of my list of 110 Southern Deep-Sky Objects.
Attached is a list of arguably the best
20 open clusters
20 globular clusters
20 nebulae
20 planetary nebulae and
30 galaxies
south of declination -20 degrees
SB is surface brightness. L' is length, W' is wide both in arc minutes.