Are You Looking For Bright Nebula To Image?

[glenc]

Are You Looking For Some Bright Nebula To Image?
Here are some objects from:

A catalogue of H-α emission regions in the Southern Milky Way
Rodgers A.W., Campbell C.T., Whiteoak J.B.
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 121, 103, 1960

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/216

Br IDs
b IC2177;HS109;G1
m NGC2327; HS111,113,114;G2,3
b NGC2359; HS116; G4
m (NGC2367)
m (NGC2409?); G6
b (NGC2467); G9
m NGC2579; G11
b NGC3199; G28
b (NGC3247); G29
vb NGC3293,3324,3372,IC2599;BBW22500;
m (NGC3503)?(NGC3572)?G34,5,6,7
m NGC3603; G38,a,b
b IC2872; BBW2620; G39,40
b IC2944,8; BBW26201;G42
b NGC6164,5; G52
m IC4628 (NGC6231); BBW31100; G55
m (NGC6281); BBW31500; G57,a,b; E1
b NGC6334; BBW31800b; E7; HS119
b (NGC6357); BBW32100; HS120; G66
m (NGC6383); BBW32301; HS121; G67
m Near NGC6432
b NGC6514(M20); HS125; E22; G76
b NGC6523(M8), 6559; BBW33402
b (IC4701); BBW34101; HS137; G79
b NGC6611(M16); BBW34400; HS142; G83
m (NGC6604); BBW34600; E41; G84,5
b NGC6618(M17); (IC4706,7); BBW34202

Br: the symbols are b for bright, m for medium, f for faint, or vb for very bright.
Only vb, b and m NGC and IC objects are listed above.

IDs: the cross identifications refer to the designations from the following papers:
NGC J.L.E. Dryer, New General Catalogue (1888)
IC J.L.E. Dryer, Index Catalogue (1895) and Second Index Catalog (1908)
BBW - B.J. Bok, M.J. Bester and C.M. Wade
E - S. Sharpless
G - C.S. Gum
HS - V.F Hase and G.A. Shaijn

[seeker372011]

thnaks , thats handy to know

does the same source have a list of O III emitting objects as well? I have been searching for such a list without much luck

Narayan

[glenc]

I think they would all be OIII or UHC.

I like NGC 3199.
http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3199.jpg
Image by Bob Erdmann & DSS

[glenc]

These two catalogues cover northern and southern emission nebulae.
There are images of all Sh2 and RCW nebulae.

The Sharpless Catalogue (northern nebulae)

http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/sharpless.py?s=1


The RCW Catalogue (southern nebulae)

http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/rcw.py?s=1

[tornado33]

Excellent, thanks very much, just wat the doctor ordered :) I will go through them and see what I can image when the moon goes away and good weather comes back
Scott

[glenc]

Kevin Jardine created the galaxy map (http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/display.py?s=1_p0.0xp0.0) and website (http://galaxymap.org/). He says:

Douglas Finkbeiner has provided an invaluable service by carefully stitching together the results of these surveys to provide an all-sky hydrogen-alpha image (http://www.astro.princeton.edu/%7Edfink/halpha/). On the following pages, I have overlaid the Sharpless, Gum, RCW and other nebulae coordinates in the Galaxy Map database on top of this hydrogen-alpha image to provide more information about the true extent and relationships between these nebulae.

http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/35

[glenc]

Here are description of some Sharpless nebula by Steve Gottlieb.
http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/sharpnotes.htm

[seeker372011]

so do I -very much

I have shot it with an unmodded Canon, a modded canon in rgb and in Halpha-probably some 10 plus hours in total of exposure over many nights over the last couple of years and have yet to get a satisfactory image :(

I notice that Zane managed a very nice image of this challenging target

http://home.goulburn.net.au/~magellan/

check for the image of 3199 in the CCD gallery

the best picture I have seen of this object though is by John Gleeson

http://www.celestialimage.com/page216.html

well I'll keep on trying :)

[2020BC]

Hi, Narayan. I'd like to share that list if we find one....:)

[glenc]

These are all OIII objects.

The Sharpless Catalogue (northern nebulae)
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/sharpless.py?s=1

The RCW Catalogue (southern nebulae)
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/rcw.py?s=1

See also: http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/33
Colin Gum at Australia's Mount Stromlo Commonwealth Observatory near Canberra took over an existing nebula photography project began by Clabon "Cla" Walter Allen...Tragically, Gum was killed in a skiing accident near the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps on 29 April 1960.

[Dr Nick]

I'll have to add some of these to my own list... ;)

[glenc]

Another place to try is: http://www.wikisky.org/
Click on DSS H-Alpha Sky Survey, then zoom and move your mouse to find object names.

[glenc]

This image shows the bright nebulae in the Milky Way from the North American nebula on the left to the Lagoon nebula on the right.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0709/milkywayband_gleason.jpg
Credit & Copyright (http://www.celestialimage.com/page41a.html): John P. Gleason (dvj%20at%20earthlink%20dot%20net), Celestial Images

[glenc]

Here are some interesting nebulae.
2MASS Atlas Image Gallery: H II Regions, Star Formation Regions, and Reflection Nebulae
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/images_hii.html

[glenc]

This website by Kevin Jardine shows southern nebulae well. Kevin is a new member of IIS.
http://galaxymap.org/sc/sc.php

[glenc]

This book provides lots of info on nebulae:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/6874175/Nebulae-and-How-to-Observe-Them-Steven-R-Coe

[madwayne]

Hi Glen

Thanks for all this information it is such a handy resource, I don't know how I missed it before now.

Regards
Wayne

[Ric]

Good value Glen, many thanks for that info.

Cheers