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Old 30-07-2013, 06:20 AM
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162 Southern Images

The book Southern Gems by Stephen James O'Meara describes 120 southern clusters, nebulae and galaxies in detail.
Here are images of these 120 objects.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1100488...NmBqrC6xdOrLw#
The images are from wikisky.org and most have the same size field, 56' by 56'.

Appendix B in Southern Gems contains an additional 42 objects.
Here are images of the 42 extra objects.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1100488...PGJ2_bBmcyXYg#
The images all have the same field, 28' by 28'.
Many of these 42 objects are in the SMC (6 objects) and LMC (14 objects).

All of these 162 objects were cataloged by the Scottish-Australian astronomer James Dunlop in 1826 using a 9" speculum reflector.
He found most of them from his backyard in Hunter St. Parramatta, NSW.
Unfortunately his house has been replaced by this six story building http://goo.gl/maps/LY2Pp
Dunlop's objects are all south of declination -28 degrees.

The 450 page book Southern Gems by Stephen James O'Meara is described here.
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic...-southern-gems

Last edited by glenc; 30-07-2013 at 09:43 AM.
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