Catalogs

Common Catalogs

• Deep Sky Object (DSO) Catalogs Commonly Referenced by Astronomers – by Ted Kurkowski

• List of Common Deep Sky Catalogs – Catalog by SEDS

Arp

• Arp’s Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies – Catalog by Dr. Halton C. Arp

• Arp Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Caldwell

• Caldwell Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Collinder (C)

• The Collinder Catalog – Catalog by Thomas Watson

• Collinder Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Herschel (H)

• Herschel 400 (NGC/IC Project) – Photos in NCG designation order

• William Herschel’s Deep Sky Catalog

• W. Herschel Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Index Catalog (IC)

• Herschel 400 (NGC/IC Project) – Photos in NCG designation order

• NGC/IC Project – collaborative effort between professional and amateur astronomers to correctly identify all of the original NGC and IC objects

• IC Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Lund

• Lund Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Lynds (LDN)

• Lynds Catalog of Dark Nebulae – updated version of the original version of the Lynds’ Catalog of Dark Nebulae that was published in 1962

• Original version of Beverly T. Lynds Catalog of Dark Nebulae – National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Greenbank, West Virginia, Received January 29th, 1962

Messier (M)

• Belt of Venus, Sketching the Messier Marathon by Jeremy Perez – includes templates, marathon reports and drawings, and resource links
• Cosmic Voyage, Messier Marathon by Bill Ferris – provides a slightly different observing to capture brighter, visible westerly objects while waiting for the dimmer ones to become visible
• Messier Marathon Observer’s Results – Reported Messier Marathon Observer’s Results 1990 through present date
• Messier Observation Reports – PCW Archives
• SEDS, The Messier Marathon – Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) – Extensive website that provides practically every aspect of the Messier Marathon. Includes: Marathon history, observing sequences, annual marathon results, resource links, upcoming marathon events.
• Star Hopping Guide to the Messier Marathon by Rob Hawley – includes descriptions on how to find the objects

Minkowski

• Minkowski 1 through 4 – on DeepSkyPedia site, observations completed by observers Ante Perković (AP), Vedran Vrhovac (VV), and astro-photographer André Hartmann.

New General Catalog (NGC)

• Herschel 400 (NGC/IC Project) – Photos in NCG designation order

• NGC/IC Project – collaborative effort between professional and amateur astronomers to correctly identify all of the original NGC and IC objects

• NGC Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Perek-Kohoutek (PK)

• PK Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Sharpless (Sh)

• Sh Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Uppsala General Catalog (UGC)

• UGC – Table to Search Catalogs – HEASARC, NASA’s site

• UGC – Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies – Referrenced from The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC), Nilson P. 1973, Uppsala Astron. Obs. Ann. 6. on NASA’s site

• UGC Observation Reports – PCW Archives

Open Clusters

• Trumpler Classification System for Open Star Clusters – by Astronomy Logs

Double Stars

• Double Star Database Search – Virtual Colonies’ Deep Sky Database

• Stelle Doppie – Double Star Database

• The Washington Double Star Catalog – maintained by the United States Naval Observatory is the world’s principal database of astrometric double and multiple star information, by Brian D. Mason, Gary L. Wycoff, and William I. Hartkopf

Galaxies

• Astronomy Magazine How To – Observe Galaxies

• Classification and Morphology of External Galaxies – By G. De Vaucouleurs

• SDSS Images of Selected RC3 Galaxies – Hogg raw SDSS data at NYU and Princeton

• UGC – Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies – Referrenced from The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC), Nilson P. 1973, Uppsala Astron. Obs. Ann. 6. on NASA’s site

Logbooks

• Computer-generated Logbooks for Deep-sky Lists by Akarsh Simha – very useful logbooks and lists for deep sky objects.

Planetary Nebulae

• Observing Tips and Tools For Planetary Nebulae – By Doug Snyder

• Planetary Nebulae Observer’s Home Page – By Doug Snyder, make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page for a navigation menu that leads to helpful PN topics!

Supernovae

• IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams – List of Recent Supernovae

~ by Erika Rix on February 7, 2011.

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