Catalogues of things in other catalogues

[Argonavis]

Following the Sky & Telescope magazine's promotion of the "Caldwell" catalogue, we now have the Levy catalogue, based on David Levy's observations:

http://www.jarnac.org/levylist.htm#Levy%20List%20sorted%2 0by%20RA:

This appears to be in conjunction with David's new book.


There is also the Bennet catalogue:

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

[iceman]

I'm waiting for the ArgoNavis catalogue of supernova! :P

I guess it's a way to sell more books.

[gaa_ian]

Yep .. saw that one too
What I would like is a list (in Excel format) of bright deep sky objects.
So I can sort & plan my observing sessions by
1. Constellation
2. What I have yet to find
3. Magnitude
etc, etc
Perhaps with Messier, Caldwell & bright NGC objects.
I have seen lots of lists, but am yet to find an excel sheet along these lines.
Has anyone else done this ?

[Hitchhiker]

Here's a link to an Excel file with an enormous number of objects in various lists.

http://www.starcrwzr.com/downloads/astronomyinfov16.zip

There are different lists on separate worksheets - Messier objects, Caldwell objects, double stars, bright NGC, etc etc. The first worksheet is LX200 centric as it came from a Meade group but the rest is all generic.

Adam.

[sheeny]

;) Aaahhh! I have just such an Excel spreadsheet. It contains the complete Messier, Caldwell and Bennett Catalogues with all the corresponding NGC, IC, and U2000 Catalogue numbers for cross referencing.

It is sorted by RA, but it is set up with autofilters if you want to use them. It prints out to just 10 pages. I have been using it in hardcopy form with my C8 SGT simply to pick whats visible during any session.

I have been planning to upload it to my web site when I get organised... but since there could be a demand, I'll try to do that soon and post the link.

BTW you can personalise the header on the page setup so it says it's your very own! ... mine does!

[33South]

Recently Ive been playing about with something called CatalogBrowser it allows you to do searches and exports from any of cat files used by CDC. The files created are Tab delimited text files so I just replaced the Tabs with commas, renamed the file to .csv voila an excel file.

Chris

[gaa_ian]

Thanks Guys .. that's very helpful
Sheeny that sheet you have sounds particully good.
Look forward to seeing that one.
I have been using a printout from the SED's Messier list with some notes.
I'm sure I can do better than that though !

[sheeny]

Here ya go....

http://alsworld.topcities.com/astro/MC&BCatalogue.xls

I have also posted my version of the Barnard Catalogue of Dark Nebulae for Epoch 2000 as well:

http://alsworld.topcities.com/astro/Barnard2000.xls

Enjoy.

Al.
http://alsworld.topcities.com/astro/index.htm

[gaa_ian]

Excellent Sheeny :thumbsup:
Already saved & I have had a play with it.
I can eliminate the constellations not visable during my observing sessions, by hiding those rows.
Plus I can add the IIS observing challenge objects, if they are missing.
Might even put an IIS challenge column in to make it easier. ;)

[gaa_ian]

Thanks Hitchhiker!
That list will come in handy too :-)