Extending the Herschel 400 List

[edosaurus_rex]

All,

I live in the Northern hemisphere (N32.75) but would love to come down to your "neck of the woods" some time and do some deep sky observing. Do you have a list of 200 NGC objects in the spirit of the Herschel 400 List 1 from the Southern hemisphere that I could add and make a personal Deep Sky 600 list? I'll take individual suggestions (your personal favorites) as well and compile them.

Thanks in advance. Clear, dark skies to all of you..

Ed

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

well, you're in texas so some of the favourites probably rise high enough to be visible from home but here's some

The Clouds (of course)

Globs
6397 Ara
6752 Pavo
M22 (NGC 6656) if you cant get a good enough view of this from home
NGC 2808 (this is a personal favourite)
5286 Centaurus

Galaxies

4945
1566 see robbie's fine image posted in the dso imaging section
5128 Centaurus A

planetary Nebs
3132 eight burst
3242 ghost of Jupiter

Nebula
Eta carina (!!!!!!)
Tarantula


Corona australis region NGC 6726/27/29

my 10c

[ving (David)]

thats a fine selection narayan

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

G'day Ed,

Try at get a hold of a book called Hartung's Objects for Southern Telescopes. Over 1100 great objects are listed and described in detail. In fact, I'm working on a couple of homemade maps listing all the major objects and double stars from declination +40 to -90, so I'll send you a compressed pdf of them when I'm finished, if you like.

Good luck.

Brian.

[edosaurus_rex]

Thanks all.

Looks like the "garden spots" in the southern sky have been identified. I forgot to mention that I have a 6in f8 scope (30 yr old Criterion RV6!).

Just so you'll know how far South I can see the observing site is N32.93 deg.
I tried to see if I could spot Achernar but just missed it (horizon cut off). Never realized how long and winding the constellation Eridanus is. Kind of like Pisces as far as the consistency of the magnitudes of stars that make it up. Canopus was low but easy. Identified Columba as well.

I've been a double/multiple star maniac lately as I'm going through a home made list of 304 of them based on the LX200 double star list.

The goal in my travelling South is to look up at the night sky and be "lost" (i.e. not knowing the constellations associated with the stars I'm looking at)

Ed

[seeker372011 (Narayan)]

Originally Posted by edosaurus_rex

The goal in my travelling South is to look up at the night sky and be "lost" (i.e. not knowing the constellations associated with the stars I'm looking at)

Ed

Not hard..for one thing even familiar objects will be upside down..plus its ridiculous trying to polar align on Sigma Octans

One good source of interesting objects is the list that appears in the monthly observing challenge..includes some nice doubles as well

Do you know which season you will be travelling in?

[edosaurus_rex]

I could maximize both coldness and darkness by coming in June!

Here is the list of 61 NGC objects between -45deg and the SCP that I hijacked from the Astronomical League's Southern Object List.

NGC104, 292 (SMC), 330, 346, 362, 371, 419, 1261, 1313, 1549,
NGC 1553, 1566, 1760, 1761, 1763, 1769, 1773, 1850, 1854, 1858,
NGC 1863, LMC, 1955, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1974, 2070,
NGC 2074, 2081, 2516, 2547, 2669, 2808, 3114, 3247, 3293, 3324,
NGC 3372, 3532, 3572, 3766, 3918, 4609, 4755, 4945, 5281, 5286,
NGC 5316, 5823, 5927, 5946, 6067, 6087, 6352, 6362, 6397, 6744, 6752.

I've also queried the Bright star catalog for 23 Double/Multiples with the same declination restrictions

Tuc: beta, kappa, delta
Eri: phi
Ret: zeta, theta
Pic: iota, mu
Vel: gamma, delta, mu
Car: upsilon
Cru: iota, mu
Cen: xi, beta
Lup: tau
Cir: alpha
Lup: pi, kappa, zeta
Nor: epsilon
Ind: theta

Ed