Browse Objects Catalogs

Lists of Messier objects (M)

• M1  thru  M110
• Messier by constellation
• Messier  (Open Clusters / Globular Clusters)
• Messier (Nebula)
• Messier (Galaxies)
• Messier (Others)

Browse Objects Catalogs

• The Messier Objects (M)  (details / images)
  
• The Caldwell  (C)
• The New General Catalogue  (NGC)
• Index Catalogue  (IC)
• The Messier Objects (M)  (details / images)

The Herschel 400 (H)

• NGC 40 thru NGC 2419
  
• NGC 2420 thru NGC 4026
• NGC 4027 thru NGC 5474
• NGC 5557 thru NGC 7814

New General Catalogue (NGC)

• NGC 1 thru NGC 100
• NGC 101 thru NGC 200
• NGC 201  thru NGC 300
• NGC 301  thru NGC 400
• NGC 401 thru NGC 500
• NGC 501  thru NGC 600
• NGC 601  thru NGC 700
• NGC 701  thru NGC 800
• NGC 801  thru NGC 900
• NGC 901  thru NGC 1000

Darker View
Public nature of the internet also makes this personal database available to anyone in the world who wishes to share in what they have seen in dark skies…

• The Observation Database by search (eg: M42 / NGC1499 / vdb23 / Sh2-276 / etc)
  
• About Darker View

Deep Sky Objects Browsers

•  Find some Deep Sky Objects for your observing skies for tonight!  –  Find some Deep Sky Objects for your observing skies! (The first thing you’ll see when you arrive is a page with filter boxes.)
  

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List of Deep Sky Objects Printable (Michael Vlasov)
This work is a printable field guide and observing list of deep-sky objects. It provides basic information about 7000 objects (up to magnitude 14) and features additional ~700 select DSO, with negative thumbnail images. Michael Vlasov, he made it using SAC database as main source of data, excluding objects with declination lower then -60º (south).

• Deep Sky Objects Guide – Full  (single PDF file, 22MB, 160 pages)
• Deep Sky Objects Guide – Sorted by constellation-magnitude  (single PDF file, 1.1MB, 109 pages)
• Messier Objects list (single PDF file, 4.9MB, 7 pages)

 

Downloadable Deep Sky Observing Guide (Downfaintfuzzies.com by Alvin Huey)

• A Very Challenging Observing Project
  –  The Palmar Compact Galaxy Catalogue
  –  Observing the Herschel 400 Objects – Part 1
  –  Observing the Herschel 400 Objects – Part 2
  –  Observing the Herschel 400 Objects – Part 3
• For large telescopes (16″ or larger)
  –  The Vrontsov-Velyaminov Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies – Part 1
  –  The Vrontsov-Velyaminov Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies – Part 2
  –  Observing Variable Galaxies
  –  Observing Local Group Members
  –  Observing Flat Galaxies
  –  Observing Ring Galaxies
  –  Observing Selected Shakhbazian Groups (faint compact galaxy group.)
  –  Observing the Abell Galaxy Clusters (definitive observing guide for large telescopes.)
• For smaller telescopes (8″ and up)
  –  Observing Selected Small Galaxy Groups
  –  Galaxy Trios and Triple Galaxy Systems (includes gravitational lensed quasars.)
  –  Globular Clusters (includes all known globular clusters in the Milky-Way above 50 degrees.)
  –  Observing Planetary Nebula and Supernova Remnants
• Deep Sky Forum Observing Guides
  –  2012 Objects of the Week
  –  2013 Objects of the Week