Lists of objects to observe

[glenc]

Are You Looking For Information On Deep Sky Objects?
Or are you making lists of objects to observe?
If you are try:

1 OPEN CLUSTERS

Jean-Claude Mermilliod
http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/
van den Bergh S., 2006
http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/vdb.html
Dias+ 2002-2005
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/229A
Lynga 1987
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/92A
Ruprecht+ 1983
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/101A

2 GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

Harris 2003
http://physwww.physics.mcmaster.ca/%7Eharris/mwgc.dat
http://www.mporzio.astro.it/~marco/gc/ (http://www.mporzio.astro.it/%7Emarco/gc/)
Monella 1985
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/103

3 BRIGHT NEBULAE

Alzner and Stoyan
Webb Society Quarterly Journal issue 103, January 1996
Visual Catalogue of Galactic Nebulae
(Unfortunately this is not on the web, it is an excellent article.)
Lynds 1965
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/9
RCW 1960
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/216 (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/216)
Sharpless 1959
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/20

4 PLANETARY NEBULAE

Kent Wallace
www.blackskies.org/PN_Files/SECGPN_V6DS.xls (http://www.blackskies.org/PN_Files/SECGPN_V6DS.xls)
Use blanks for name and password.
Acker+, 1992
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?V/84 (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/qcat?VII/24)

5 DARK NEBULAE

Dobashi+, 2005
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/244
Lynds 1962
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/7A
Barnard, 1927
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/220A

6 GALAXIES

RC3 de Vaucouleurs+ 1991 you can filter BT
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/155
Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC) (Paturel+ 1989)
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3 (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/237)

7 LMC & SMC

Bica+, 1999
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?J/AJ/117/238
also SMC and Bridge extended catalog (Bica+ 1995)
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/ApJS/101/41/table2
Le Coarer+ 1993
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?J/A%2bA/280/365
Davies+ 1976
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/232



If all else fails try CDS Catalogues. VII. Non-stellar Objects
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cats/VII.htx
or
The Deep Sky Browser J2000.0
http://www.messier45.com/cgi-bin/dsdb/dsb.pl
or
The ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas (Lauberts 1982)
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/34C

[mickoking]

Thanks for that Glen, consider them bookmarked :)

[glenc]

Thanks Mick.
Did you see the list of 111 Bright NGC objects under Projects & Articles?
That is distilled from the information below.

[glenc]

We don't have magnitudes for bright nebula.
The best brightness values that I have seen are in the:


Visual Catalogue of Galactic Nebulae
by Andreas Alzner and Ronald Stoyan (alz & rcs in the files)
in the Webb Society Quarterly Journal, January 1996

They rank them as:

1=very bright (M 42, M 17)
2=bright, easy without filter (M 78, NGC 1491)
3=of medium brightness, mostly good use of filtration (NGC 2174, NGC 896)
4=faint (S 157, S 301)
5=very faint, definite (VMT 10, IC 2118)
6=very faint, only suspected (S 188, S 240)
e= details visible

The attached 2 files list some nebula in order from bright to faint.
The first file is from telescopes 120 to 200 mm in aperture, R = refractor, N = newtonian.
The second file is from 360 mm newtonians.
The files can be copied into MS Excel.

[Don Pensack]

Glen,
Could I have your permission to post this list in the Deep Sky Forum on Cloudy Nights (giving you credit, of course). Alternatively, if you also spend time there, would you post it, please?
I think the readers there would find your links helpful.
Don Pensack

[iceman]

Don,

In addition to the post, you might find linking this article Glen wrote useful as well:

111 Bright NGC Objects by Discoverer (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=63,322,0,0,1,0)

[Rodstar]

Thanks for the resource, Glen. I was looking for Barnard's list of dark nebulae just the other day....the search is over!

[glenc]

Which list did you mean?
I don't want to upset Alzner and Stoyan or the Webb Society.
But you can use my list and my links.
Glen

[glenc]

THIS IS A MULTI-LIST OF DEEP SKY OBJECTS.

A useful tool when deciding what to observe tonight is a list that is ranked by magnitude. You can use it to find the 10 brightest objects of each type or the 10 faintest in the list.

The attached list contains 635 objects.
The 5 columns are:
1. Rank from 1 for the brightest of each type of object to xxx for the faintest.
2. Name NGC, IC etc in numerical order.
3. Type OC, GC, PN, Gxy
4. Mv the visual magnitude from 0.4 to 11.9.
5. M The Messier number.

There are:
211 OC from Lynga 1987. M45 is #1
103 GC from Harris 2003. Omega Cen is #1
114 PN from Kent Wallace and Acker+ 1992. M27 is #1
207 Gxy from de Vaucouleurs+ 1991. LMC is #1
See post #1 below for these catalogues

There are no nebs because their magnitudes are not available.
See post #4 below for the brightness of northern nebulae.
Use RCW for southern nebulae.

You can copy this tab-delimited list into MS Excel and use a data filter to find all the objects ranked less than 20 etc.

It is really a multi-list, brightest 100 or brightest 200 etc.

[glenc]

This is amazing!
6750 NGC + 600 IC observations with 13" and 17.5" scopes.:thumbsup:

Steve Gottlieb's
NGC/IC Observations Database Files

These are Steve Gottlieb's own personal observations for about 6571 original NGC entries (6750 total {NGC + alphabetic suffixed NGC} and 600 IC objects) all of which have been checked for historical accuracy. Outside of the NGC itself, this is likely the most complete contemporary resource of NGC observations, by a single observer, available anywhere. A hat tip and a salute to Steve!

http://www.ngcic.org/gottlieb/default.htm

[glenc]

Another amazing modern observer is Kent Wallace from California.
He attempted to observe 1064 planetary nebulae.

692 were seen.
359 eluded him.
13 were uncertain but may have been seen.

The northern PN were observed from California and the southern PN from Western Australia. He uses a 20" Dob without any goto aids. :thumbsup:

His list is at:
www.blackskies.org/PN_Files/SECGPN_V6DS.xls (http://www.blackskies.org/PN_Files/SECGPN_V6DS.xls)

[CoombellKid]

Glen,

Jeezus! there is enough info and challenges in the above lists to keep
one going for a few lifetimes lol. Thanks for posting and sharing your
wealth of information.

regards,CS sunny days

Rob

[dhumpie]

Agreed! Great listing of deep sky resources. I don't think we will ever be able to see everything in this known universe....

Darren

[mickoking]

He's got my respect :thumbsup:

[glenc]

I just found a nice version of the Sharpless northern nebulae catalogue,
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/sharpless.py?s=1

The original is at:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1959ApJS....4..257S

and the RCW southern nebulae catalogue is also there at:
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/rcw.py?s=1

The original is at:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1960MNRAS.121..103R

[glenc]

This site has Burnham's 3 volumes and more:

Welcome to the Searchable Universe !

http://www.altairfour.net/SU/presentation1/catalogs.htm (http://www.altairfour.net/SU/presentation1/catpage.html)

[glenc]

Some more lists.

Deep Sky Objects In The Magellanic Clouds

by Mati Morel

http://www.asnsw.com/articles/clouds/

[crystal_stars]

Thanks heaps for all the lists Glen. As a newcomer I find it great to have lists of all the things I can hope to see as I go through this hobby. You have given many of years worth of observing.

C.

[glenc]

If you have Sky Atlas 2000 by Wil Tirion here is a list of all the objects in it with mags sizes etc. They are listed by chart number.

http://www.nightskyinfo.com/sky_atlas_2000/index_skyatlas2000.txt

[glenc]

Below are 4 very rich open clusters.
The diagrams give individual star magnitudes and colours.
Blue is on the left red is on the right.

http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/cgi-bin/plot_cmd.cgi?ngc2477+NGC+2477

http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/cgi-bin/plot_cmd.cgi?ngc4755+NGC+4755

http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/cgi-bin/plot_cmd.cgi?ngc6705+NGC+6705

http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/cgi-bin/plot_cmd.cgi?ngc7789+NGC+7789

[glenc]

Are you running out of things to see?

The Saguaro Astronomy Club in Arizona has a list of 10,232 objects in an Excel file for your viewing pleasure. :eyepop:
They just updated the list which they started nearly 25 years ago.

There are 2778 objects south of dec -20 if you don't want to see them all.

You can download it at:
http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/downloads.htm

It includes:
ASTER Asterism
BRTNB Bright Nebula
CL+NB Cluster with Nebulosity
DRKNB Dark Nebula
GALCL Galaxy cluster
GALXY Galaxy
GLOCL Globular Cluster
GX+DN Diffuse Nebula in a Galaxy
GX+GC Globular Cluster in a Galaxy
G+C+N Cluster with Nebulosity in a Galaxy
LMCCN Cluster with Nebulosity in the LMC
LMCDN Diffuse Nebula in the LMC
LMCGC Globular Cluster in the LMC
LMCOC Open cluster in the LMC
NONEX Nonexistent
OPNCL Open Cluster
PLNNB Planetary Nebula
SMCCN Cluster with Nebulosity in the SMC
SMCDN Diffuse Nebula in the SMC
SMCGC Globular Cluster in the SMC
SMCOC Open cluster in the SMC
SNREM Supernova Remnant
QUASR Quasar
#STAR # Stars (#=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.)

Below is a sample of nearly 400 objects south of dec -20.
It is a tab delimited file and can be opened with Excel.

[CoombellKid]

Hey Wow! Glen,

The Saguaro List is awesome. Just downloaded it and gave it a quite run.
Boy the objects it lists just in Crux is impressive... should keep me going
for awhile to come,plus it has the UM2000.0 map numbers : )

thanks for sharing

Rob

[glenc]

I just came across a very usefull page on the web.

It is called Silicon Owl and has a nice database.
http://www.siowl.com/index.html
It's from Tucson, Arizona.

110 Messier objects
724 NGC objects
106 IC objects
196 Barnard dark neb
187 Misc

all with links, images etc
There is a photography section too.

[glenc]

Here is a spreadsheet of the Sharpless nebulae.
http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/catalogs.htm
Some of the bright nebulae larger than 10' are: (all north of dec -39)
M 8 = Lagoon
M16 = N6611 = Eagle Nebula
M17 = N6618 = Swan Nebula
M20 = Trifid
M42/43 = Orion Nebula
N0281
N1491
N1499
N1973/1975/1977
N2174/N2175/IC 2159
N2246 = Rosette Nebula
N2264 = Christmas Tree Cluster
N2359 = Thor's Helmet
N2467
N6334
N6357
N6888 = Crescent Nebula
N7538
N7635 = Bubble Nebula
N7822
Contains N6604
Contains N7380
IC 405 = Flaming Star Nebula = LBN 795
IC 410
IC 417
IC 434 or N2024?
IC 443:
IC 1318
IC 1805
IC 1848
IC 2177 = Seagull Nebula
vdB 93 = Gum 1

[fok4tel]

Amazing, Glen. The SAC database is ver 8 now.
Too many DSO's, too little dark sky and time.

[NQLD_Newby]

Glen you are the King.......:bowdown:....... these lists are fantastic. I usually spend quite some time making viewing plans before a big night observing. Now I just have to bring up the list and sort it whichever way I want and print, and there you have it. Thanks for your efforts, they make observing much easier for people with little time. They also help expand ones knowledge of what there is to look at.

[glenc]

Thanks Rex
I just came across this list of Collinder Open Clusters.
http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1843
These are some of the better ones, (mag less than 8, more than 100 stars)
869
884
M45
1912 (M38)
Orion Belt
2099 (M37)
2168 (M35)
2287 (M41)
2437 (M46)
2477
3114
3532
3766
4755
5822
6067
IC4756
6705 (M11)
6819
7789
IC5146