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Lists of objects to observe

Are You Looking For Information On Deep Sky Objects?
Or are you making lists of objects to observe?
If you are try:

1 OPEN CLUSTERS

Jean-Claude Mermilliod
http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/
van den Bergh S., 2006
http://www.univie.ac.at/webda/vdb.html
Dias+ 2002-2005
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...ource=VII/229A
Lynga 1987
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/92A
Ruprecht+ 1983
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...ource=VII/101A

2 GLOBULAR CLUSTERS

Harris 2003
http://physwww.physics.mcmaster.ca/%7Eharris/mwgc.dat
http://www.mporzio.astro.it/~marco/gc/
Monella 1985
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/103

3 BRIGHT NEBULAE

Alzner and Stoyan
Webb Society Quarterly Journal issue 103, January 1996
Visual Catalogue of Galactic Nebulae
(Unfortunately this is not on the web, it is an excellent article.)
Lynds 1965
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/9
RCW 1960
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII/216
Sharpless 1959
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...-source=VII/20

4 PLANETARY NEBULAE

Kent Wallace
www.blackskies.org/PN_Files/SECGPN_V6DS.xls
Use blanks for name and password.
Acker+, 1992
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?V/84

5 DARK NEBULAE

Dobashi+, 2005
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/244
Lynds 1962
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...-source=VII/7A
Barnard, 1927
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...ource=VII/220A

6 GALAXIES

RC3 de Vaucouleurs+ 1991 you can filter BT
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/155
Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC) (Paturel+ 1989)
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3

7 LMC & SMC

Bica+, 1999
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?J/AJ/117/238
also SMC and Bridge extended catalog (Bica+ 1995)
http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V.../101/41/table2
Le Coarer+ 1993
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Cat?J/A%2bA/280/365
Davies+ 1976
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/232



If all else fails try CDS Catalogues. VII. Non-stellar Objects
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cats/VII.htx
or
The Deep Sky Browser J2000.0
http://www.messier45.com/cgi-bin/dsdb/dsb.pl
or
The ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas (Lauberts 1982)
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/V...source=VII/34C

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