Deep Sky Objects

Lists of Messier objects (M)
To view the Messier objects from In-The-Sky website by Dominc Ford.

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

Lists of New General Catalogue objects (NGC)
To view the NGC objects from In-The-Sky website by Dominc Ford.

• NGC Objects  (NGC1 thru NGC7840)
• NGC  (by constellation)
• NGC  (by sort order – Magnitude)

.
Browse other objects catalogs
To view the other objects catalogs from In-The-Sky website by Dominc Ford.

• The Caldwell  (C1 thru C109)
• Index Catalogue  (IC2 thru IC5384)
• The Arp’s Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies  (ARP 1 thru ARP 338)
• The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies  (Abell 1 thru Abell 4076)
• The Hickson’s Compact Groups of Galaxies  (HCG 1 thru HCG 100)
• The Barnard Catalog  (B1 thru B370)
• The Sharpless Catalog  (SH2-1 thru SH2-313)
• The Collinder Catalog  (Cr 1 thru Cr 471)
• The Melotte Catalog  (Mel 1 thru Mel 245)

 

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)
  
• The Observation Database completes the form to query the database or to generate an observing list based on your requirement for your location tonight:  Observing List Generator
• About Darker View

.
Printable

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 (The Webb Deep-Sky Society – Observer’s Guide)

• 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

.