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Which deep-sky object catalogs are included?

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Posted: 14 Apr, 2008
by: Lang P.
Updated: 14 Apr, 2008
by: Lang P.
Deep-Sky Planner currently ships with the following deep-sky catalogs:

 Type Prefix  Count
Catalog Name
General      
  C 113 Caldwell Catalog (Moore, 1995)
  H 402 Herschel 400
  H2 400 Herschel 2
  IC 5386 VII/118 NGC2000.0 (Sky Publishing, ed. Sinnott 1988)
  M 109 VII/118 NGC2000.0 (Sky Publishing, ed. Sinnott 1988)
  NGC 7840 VII/118 NGC2000.0 (Sky Publishing, ed. Sinnott 1988)
Galaxy Clusters

ACO 2712 VII/4A Catalog of Abell Galaxy Clusters, 1958
  HCG 100 VII/213 Hickson's Compact groups of Galaxies  (Hickson+ 1982-1994)
  ZwCl 9134 VII/4A Catalog of Zwicky Galaxy Clusters, 1958
Dark Nebulae      

B 349 VII/220A  Barnard's Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky (Barnard, 1927)
Globular Clusters
  GCL 160 VII/103 Catalog of Galactic Globular Clusters (Monella, 1985)
Galaxies      

Arp 636 VII/192 Arp's Peculiar Galaxies (Webb, 1966)
  MCG 29003 VII/62A Morphological Catalog of Galaxies
  Mrk 1469 VII/172 First Byurakan Survey (Markarian+, 1989)
  PGC 73197 VII/119 Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (Paturel+ 1989)
  UGC 12940 VII/26D Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (Nilson, 1973)
Nebulae      

Ced 330 VII/231 Catalog of Bright Diffuse Galactic Nebulae (Cederblad, 1946)
  Sh2 313 VII/20 Catalog of HII Regions (Sharpless, 1959)
  VdB 158 VII/21 Catalog of Reflection Nebulae (van den Bergh, 1966)
Open Clusters      

OCL 1599 VII/229 Optically Visible Open Clusters Catalog (Dias+, 2002)
Planetary Nebulae
  PNG 1143 V/84 Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker+, 1992)
Quasars      

HB93 7314 VII/158 A Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects (Hewitt+, 1993)
Supernova Remnants

SNR 231 VII/227 A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (Green 2001)
       
  Total 155038  
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