Online catalogue of Galaxies

[pfitzgerald]

Hi Folks

Usually I'm pretty good at bookmarking useful and interesting websites but this time it looks like I forgot to.

About this time last year I came across a really good online catalogue of galaxies that was orgainsed according to type, sadly I did not bookmark it and I cannot remember where it is or who put it together! I do remember that it was very well orgainsed and put together and used B&W images like those found in the SDSS.

Any help in finding it would be much appreciated - googling for it hasn't yet revealed its location!

TYAIA - Paul :confused2:

[pfitzgerald]

OK - Found it.
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/SPGA_Atlas/frames.html
And suffice to say that I've now bookmarked it.

Paul

[Manav]

Nice find! :D

[glenc]

You can also try Hyperleda
http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/
http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/leda/fullsql.html

and the Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC)
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/119

[pfitzgerald]

Thanks for that Glen, I'll add them to the list.

Paul

[madbadgalaxyman]

Some more Very Important online catalogs of galaxies

The homepage of the NED extragalactic database is:

http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/
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The SIMBAD database of galaxies is here:

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
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A critically important source of information for the nearby galaxies (those within 11 Megaparsecs) is the Updated Nearby Galaxy Catalog:

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/neargalcat.html

and also

http://www.sao.ru/lv/lvgdb/pview.php

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A quick reference for reliable NGC/IC object data is The NGC/IC Project:

http://www.ngcicproject.org/

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A comprehensive Online Catalog of the distances of various galaxies is The Extragalactic Distance Database:

http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu/dfirst.php
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A very comprehensive source of high quality images for hundreds of the brightest galaxies (and together with much important data) is the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey:

http://cgs.obs.carnegiescience.edu/CGS/Home.html

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The other Absolutely Essential online collection of images of the members of the bright galaxy population is the Online version of the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies:
http://bama.ua.edu/~rbuta/devatlas/imagedatabase.html

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There are also gigantic numbers of specialized catalogs and atlases of galaxies......so if you need to know about them, just ask madbadgalaxyman!
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[glenc]

Thanks Robert.
The 14 large nearby galaxies (including the MW) are mentioned in this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VzL7xGzfNlU

[pfitzgerald]

Thanks heaps for all this info gents - it's greatly appreciated.

Paul