DSO list for southerner observers.

[Starkler]

I came across this, the Bennett list (http://home.earthlink.net/~larry_stedman/)of 152 bright DSO's south of the celestial equator.

Scroll down the page to the link "The Full Bennett List", and you can download the list in excel format.

Hoping some of you find it useful ;)

[ballaratdragons]

Thanks Geoff.

I opened the link all excited and went to the list in excel format you mentioned. It's all gibberish to me but I'm sure others will get great use of it.

[Starkler]

Ken i take it you have excel ?
It opened fine for me.

[ballaratdragons]

Yep, got excel, and it opened.

But what I meant was that all the numbers and NGC's etc are gibberish to me.

I don't understand what any of those numbers mean. Others will.

[mickoking]

The Bennett list is the best deep sky objects available from our fair latitudes and it was compiled by a southerner (South African) unlike the Caldwell catologue.

[jjjnettie]

http://www.astrosurf.com/antilhue/Bennett.htm

Here a site with the same list but it also has a bit of history about the man himself.
Thanks for putting us on to this Geoff.

[johnno]

Thanks Geoff,and Jeanette,

Thats a very helpful list.
Regards.
John

[gaa_ian]

That is a great Catalog & particully good for us "Northern-Southern" observers, at this time of year with Scop/Sag/Oph, riding high in the southern sky.
I have just been having a look at the images that are with that Catalog Jeanette, they are Awesome !
Showing the kind of detail I would expect of a professional Image, this guy is good !

[ballaratdragons]

Astroman has just been in Skype teaching me what some of those numbers in the chart mean.

Not so gibberish after all.

I just gotta find out how to use them now that I know what they mean :thumbsup:

I now know they are markings on the setting circles but I have to work out how to set up my setting circles, and I now know what RA & dec are. I'm getting there!

Slowly does it. Wax on, Wax off, well done Grasshopper.

[Johno]

As a bit of an aside... I saw Comet Bennett in 1970 in the early morning sky over Siding Spring from the Grand High Tops in the Warrumbungle National Park. I was on a scout bushwalk! It was the biggest, brightest and most spectacular comet I've ever seen.