The GCL Globular Cluster List. Origins anyone?

[stephenb (Stephen)]

I've been trawling through the long list of Globulars and I noted that many have an alternative designation GCLxxx. Can anyone (Glenc?) shed some light as to the origin of this catalogue? I cannot locate any info on it via Mr. Google.

e.g.:

NGC 104 (47 Tuc) is GCL 1
NGC 7492 appears to be the last GCL125

I have attached a list I've compiled myself, with some missing numbers also

[noeyedeer (Matt)]

as far as I am aware ... this could be the origin of the GCL. again I could be wrong..

physwww.mcmaster.ca/~harris/mwgc.dat

matt

[SteveG (Steve)]

It appears to go back to the 1970 "Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations" by Alter, Ruprecht and Vanysek and updated with a 1981 supplement. Here's the SIMBAD page describing these catalogues.

The complete list of all GCL objects is here. Instead of 125, it actually includes 132 objects, as some were apparently added in the supplement (e.g. GCL 43.1 = Terzan 3). Just click on any name and you'll get data on the cluster, included all the aliases, so you can fill in your missing numbers.

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Matt thanks for your reply. Yes I did come across your link and although it didn't shed much light on the origins of the GCL, it has come in very handy in both adding and amending some data to my growing list of observable globulars.

Steve, that's what I'm looking for. A complete list. I've struggled to locate much info on Jaroslav Ruprecht who I understand was one of the astronomers responsible for cataloging them. I understand he did much of his observing from Boyden Observatory in South Africa.