[WilliamPaolini]

I am beginning a quest to get more familiar with the southern skies (I'm a north hemispheric - Virginia, USA). Many of the catalogs I use tend to have some coverage of the southern skies, but not sure how well they cover the major sights in your neck of the woods all the way to -70 or more declination (just stuff in reach of an 8" scope so not looking for deep hunts to super faint fuzzies).

Catalogs I typically use are:

Messier
Caldwell
Herschel 400
Cillinder
Stock
Sharpless
Barnard
Melotte
Clark

Searching on web for more southern-centric catalogs I found the Bambury 600 and the Jack Bennett (5") catalog. The Jack Bennett Catalog is covered by the others listed after I did a deeper compare, but the Bambury 600 has about 150 or so objects not listed on any of the others mentioned.

I probably do not have a lot of good coverage for dark nebula as the Barnard is mainly north.

Anyway, if anyone can recommend a few others you use, and provide a link if possible as sometimes hard to find ones that I can get into a spreadsheet easily. All target types are on the table.

Greatly appreciate it!
-Bill