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[glenc]

95 Easy Deep Sky Objects for Southern Observers
Covers declination +41 to –72 (M31 to SMC)
Contains 95 DSO including 42 Messier objects.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=18551&highlight=glenc
A “map” is at:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=25155&d=1175207414


110 Deep-Sky High Lights
Covers declination +70 to –72. (M82 to SMC)
Includes 52 Messier objects.
https://seds.org/Messier/xtra/similar/cozens.html


111 Bright NGC Objects
Covers declination +67 to –72 (NGC6543 to SMC)
Does not include Messier objects.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=63,322,0,0,1,0 (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/../index.php?id=63,322,0,0,1,0)


A Multi-List Of 632 Deep Sky Objects
Covers declination +85 to –82 (NGC188 to IC4499)
Includes OC, GC, PN and Gxy (no nebula)
The rank is given for each type of object, #1 is the brightest of each type.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12801&highlight=ranked
See post #9.

A zipped Excel file is attached.

[dannat]

THanks for the lists Glenn, keep up the good work:thumbsup:

[glenc]

Here is an Excel list of 2937 objects and a 156 page free atlas too.
(see the Deep Sky Object List in MS-Excel)

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zs3t-tk/index.htm (http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/%7Ezs3t-tk/index.htm)

[glenc]

Wolfgang Steinicke updated his NGC/IC catalog recently.

The attached list is an abridged version of the:
Revised NGC/IC Data (zipped xls-file)
by Wolfgang Steinicke
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/index_e.htm
Any non-commercial use of the data is free! If a commercial use is planned, please contact Wolfgang (steinicke-zehnle@t-online.de).

All NGC and IC Globular clusters, Nebulae and Planetary nebulae are listed
427 Galaxies and 405 Open clusters are also given.
The attached list contains 1390 NGC & IC objects.

[glenc]

Wolfgang Steinicke also updated his historic NGC and for the first time produced a historic IC catalogue.

Historic Data and Catalogues
Biographical information on 172 NGC/IC observer with 528 pictures (April 23, 2008)
"Historic NGC" with complete information about discoverers, instruments and references for each object (April 20, 2008)
"Historic IC" with complete information about discoverers, instruments and references for each object (April 25, 2008)

http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/index_e.htm

[glenc]

Who discovered the NGC and IC objects south of declination 30 south?
I just did a count of Wolfgang Steinicke's catalogs and the following people found more than 20 objects each.

John Herschel, 1046 objects
DeLisle Stewart, 595 using photography
James Dunlop, 238
Lewis Swift, 138
Royal Frost, 119 using photography
Williamina Fleming, 25
Nicolas Lacaille, 23

[glenc]

There are 226 NGC and IC galaxies between RA 12 and RA 13 and between declination 0 and +20 brighter than magnitude 13.
That area transits at about 9:30 pm tonight.

[glenc]

The attached Word file provides information about the main discoverers of NGC and IC objects. All open clusters, all globular clusters, all bright nebulae, all planetary nebulae and all objects (GxP) in other galaxies are counted. Only galaxies brighter than magnitude 13 are included.
The names in bold are people who observed or photographed from the southern hemisphere.
Lacaille and John Herschel observed from Cape Town, Dunlop from Sydney and Stewart and Frost took photos from Peru.
The file gives names, dates and number of objects of each type found.

Reference Wolfgang Steinicke
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/index_e.htm

[glenc]

The TriAtlas is a major reference, that includes 25, 90 and 661 charts (A, B and C sets), showing the night sky in a detail level larger than the Millennium Sky Atlas. The core of the project is the C-maps set:

http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/triatlas.html

[glenc]

http://www.philharrington.net/tuba.htm
TUBA was taken off the market in late 2005, and is no longer available for sale. But due to popular demand, Dean and Phil have decided to turn TUBA into freeware. Download your copy here (zipped file, >6 MB) (http://www.philharrington.net/tuba.zip)

[glenc]

Stars
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/stars.html
The all-sky catalogue of 2.5million stars
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=I/280

Open Clusters
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/openclus.html
http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/
http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/description.html#cluster_level
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/A+A/438/1163/
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/A+A/440/403

Globular Clusters
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/globular.html
http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat (http://www.physics.mcmaster.ca/%7Eharris/mwgc.dat)
http://www.seds.org/messier/glob.html

Bright Nebulae
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/nebulae.html
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/sharpless.py?s=1
http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/rcw.py?s=1
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/A+A/399/141

Dark Nebulae
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/darknebs.html
http://www.dvaa.org/AData/Barnard.html
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-meta.foot&-source=VII/244A

Planetary Nebulae
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/plannebs.html
http://www.blackskies.org/intro.html#Files

Galaxies
http://media.skyandtelescope.com/images/MilkyWay+new+med.jpg
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galax200.html
The PGC catalogue (77,141 galaxies)
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-meta.foot&-source=VII/119
http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr//leda/fullsql.html

Magellanic Clouds
http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?J/AJ/117/238
http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?J/ApJS/101/41

NGC & IC
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/index_e.htm
http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_ngc.asp
Observing notes for 6851 NGC entries and an additional 685 IC entries.
http://www.astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/steve.ngc.htm

Non Stellar
http://seds.org/messier/Xtra/history/dis-tab.html
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/cats/VII.htx

Saguaro Astronomy Club Database version 7.70 (http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/db/SAC770.zip)

[glenc]

This file gives data and images for large galaxies.
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/2MASS/LGA/atlas.html

[CoombellKid]

This looks good :thumbsup: pitty about the dang moon at present. But then again
my neck is playing up. About to head out and give Jup's a look since I
haven't seen it in awhile and GRS is coming into view.

thanks for posting Glen :)

regards,CS

[renormalised]

That's quite an impressive list of lists and catalogues there, Glenn:)

That would've taken some time to compile!!!:eyepop:

[glenc]

I like this site, it has pictures of more than 700 planetary nebulae.
http://www.astro.washington.edu/balick/PNIC/

[glenc]

Some more images to look at:
The Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC
2MASS Atlas Image Gallery: The Messier Catalog
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/messiercat.html

[seeker372011]

fantastic resources Glen

thanks so much

I have just downloaded TUBA..I have long owned the book so this will be a great companion

[glenc]

William Herschel observed nearly 2500 objects from Slough near London between 1783 and 1802 with his 18.5" aperture telescope.
Here is the list: http://education.gsu.edu/spehar/FOCUS/Astronomy/miscitems/miscellaneous.htm
The Herschel 400 list is also included on the Herschel 2500.xls spreadsheet.

For more information on William Herschel see http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/Bios/wherschel.html
I like this bit " On December 7, 1781, the day of his election to the Royal Society, his friend, William Watson, presented a copy of Messier (http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/Bios/messier.html)'s (and Méchain (http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/Bios/mechain.html)'s) Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/m-cat.html) to William. This catalog stimulated his interest in clusters and nebulae. At that time, he had only observed four nebulae: The Orion Nebula together with its companion M43 (http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m043.html) (1774), globular cluster M13 (http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m013.html) in Hercules (1779), and the Andromeda "Nebula" M31 (http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m031.html) (1780). In August 1782, he started to investigate Messier's objects with his superior telescopes; his first observation was that of globular cluster M5 (http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m005.html) in Serpens. Soon, he "surmised" (to say it in his own words), "that several nebulae might yet remain undiscovered.""
Several turned out to be a couple of thousand.

[seeker372011]

:) :):lol:

[glenc]

Most of the nebulae in our galaxy are here.
Catalog of Star-Forming Regions in the Galaxy (Avedisova, 2002)
Data on star-forming regions (66885 rows)
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=V/112

[glenc]

The Avedisova catalog contains information on about 3200 star formation regions. Quite a bit of information - it has over 66 thousand records listing observations of star clusters, molecular clouds, masers, nebulae, dust clouds and much more. Because it includes much of the latest data on infrared and radio sources, it is far more comprehensive than the Sharpless, Gum and RCW nebula catalogs (http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/33) compiled during the 1950s and complements and extends the optically visible OB associations studied by Ambartsumian, Ruprecht and Humphreys (http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/90).
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/119

These images show the milky way in Ha.
http://galaxymap.org/book_images/download/ha_plane_lon.jpg
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/35

[glenc]

Uniform survey of clusters in the southern Milky Way by van den Bergh, S & Hagen, GL 1975
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975AJ.....80...11V

Rich open clusters are given richness R in http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975AJ.....80... 11V&link_type=ARTICLE&db_key=AST&high=48e0f2eeb612716

[glenc]

There are some great images here: http://www.sharplesscatalog.com/sharpless.aspx

[glenc]

For those that like looking at nothing!
A catalogue of dust clouds in the Galaxy, Dutra C.M., Bica E. (2002)
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/A+A/383/631
This file is an unified dust cloud catalogue of the Galaxy. Considering an initial list of approximately 6500 entries [the authors] condensed them into a cross-identified all-sky catalogue containing 5004 dust clouds.
http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2002/08/aah3306.pdf

[glenc]

The authors present an all-sky catalog of 451 nearby galaxies, each having an individual distance estimate D<~10 Mpc
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-ex_refcode?refcode=2004AJ....127.20 31K
The catalog is here:
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?search_type=Search&refcode=2004AJ....127.2031K

This map shows a 1.5 million galaxies: http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/jarrett/papers/LSS/2MASS_LSS_chart-NEW.jpg
Panoramic view of the entire near-infrared sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The image is derived from the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog (XSC)--more than 1.5 million galaxies, and the Point Source Catalog (PSC)--nearly 0.5 billion Milky Way stars. The galaxies are color coded by "redshift" ... Blue are the nearest sources (z < 0.01); green are at moderate distances (0.01 < z < 0.04) and red are the most distant sources that 2MASS resolves (0.04 < z < 0.1).