| No. |
Object |
Remarks
|
| 1 |
NGC 7822 |
large, faint emission nebula; rated `eeF'; also look for E/R nebula
Ced 214 (ass. with cluster Berkeley 59) 1 deg S
|
| 2 |
IC 59 |
faint emission/reflection nebulosity paired with IC 63 close to gamma
Cas; requires clean optics; rated as `pF'
|
| 3 |
NGC 609 |
faint patch at low power; high power needed to resolve this rich cluster
(also look for Trumpler 1 cluster 1 deg S)
|
| 4 |
IC 1795 |
brightest part of a complex nebulosity that includes IC 1805 and IC
1848; use a nebula filter
|
| 5 |
Maffei 1 |
heavily reddened galaxy; very faint; requires large aperture and black
skies; nearby Maffei II probably invisible
|
| 6 |
NGC 1049 |
Class V globular in dward `Fornax system'
Local Group galaxy
630,000 ly away, galaxy itself invisible ?
|
| 7 |
NGC 1275 |
Perseus A exploding galaxy; brightest member of Abell 426 gal. cl. 300
million ly away; see Webb vol. 5
|
| 8 |
NGC 1432/35 |
Pleiades nebulosity
(also includes IC 349); brightest around Merope; requires transparent
sky and clean optics
|
| 9 |
IC 342 |
large and diffuse face-on spiral; member of UMa-Cam cloud (Kemble's
Cascade of stars also in this chart)
|
| 10 |
NGC 1499 |
California Nebula; very large and faint; use a wide-field telescope
or big binoculars plus H-Beat filter
|
| 11 |
NGC 1554/5 |
Hind's Variable Nebula; small reflect. neb. around 9m-13m var. star
T Tau; use high power; difficulty varies
|
| 12 |
IC 405 |
Flaming Star Nebula; associated with runaway star AE Aurigae; see Burnham's
Handbook page 285 (also look for IC 410)
|
| 13 |
IC 434/B 33 |
B 33 is the Horsehead Nebula, a dark nebula superimposed on a very faint
emission nebula IC 434; use H-Beta filter in dark sky!
|
| 14 |
Sh 2-276 |
Barnard's Loop; SNR or interstellar bubble?; difficult to detect due
to size; use filter and sweep with wide field
|
| 15 |
Abell 12 |
also called PK 198 -6.1; faint; not plotted on Uranometria but is on
NW edge of mu Orionis; OIII filter required
|
| 16 |
IC 443 |
faint supernova remnant very close to eta Gem; use filter (also look
for NGC 2174 and Sh 2-247 on this Chart)
|
| 17 |
J 900 |
Jonckheere 900; bright starlike planetary; plotted as PK 194 +2.1 in
Uranometria; use OIII filter & high power
|
| 18 |
IC 2177 |
Eagle Nebula; large, faint; contains bright patches Gum 1 (-10d 28'),
NGC 2327 (-11d 18') & Ced 90 (-12d 20')
|
| 19 |
PK 205+14.1 |
Medusa Nebula or Abell 21; much larger than plotted in Uranometria;
impressive in large aperture with OIII filter
|
| 20 |
NGC 2419 |
at 200 000 light years away the most distant Milky Way globular for
amateur telescopes; very small & faint; Class II
|
| 21 |
PK 164+31.1 |
extremely faint with two small components; use OIII filter; sometimes
confused with nearby NGC 2474-75
|
| 22 |
Leo I |
dwarf elliptical; satellite of Milky Way; very low surface brightness;
0.3deg N of Regulus!; requires clean optics
|
| 23 |
Abell 1367 |
cluster of some 30 or more galaxies within a 1deg field near 93 Leonis;
see Webb Handbook Volume 5, page 139
|
| 24 |
NGC 3172 |
`Polarissma Borealis' - closest galaxy to the North Celestial Pole;
small, faint and otherwise unremarkable
|
| 25 |
NGC 4236 |
very large, dim barred spiral; a diffuse glow (NGC 4395 on Chart 108
is a similar large diffuse face-on)
|
| 26 |
Mrk 205 |
Markarian 205; a faint star on SW edge of NGC 4319; plotted as a radio
source; centre of the red-shift controversy
|
| 27 |
3C 273 |
at 2 to 3 billion light years away one of the most distant objects visible
in amateur telescopes; magnitude variable
|
| 28 |
NGC 4676 |
`The Mice' or VV 224 - two classic interacting galaxies; very faint;
double nature detectable at high power
|
| 29 |
Abell 1656 |
Coma Berenices galaxy cluster; very rich; 400 million light years away;
brightest member NGC 4889; see Webb Volume 5
|
| 30 |
NGC 5053 |
faint and very loose globular 1deg SE of M53; requires large aperture
to resolve; difficult in hazy skies; Class XI
|
| 31 |
NGC 5897 |
large, faint and loose globular; magnitude 10.9 in Atlas Coeli Catalogue;
requires large aperture to resolve; Class XI
|
| 32 |
Abell 2065 |
Corona Borealis galaxy cluster; perhaps the most difficult object for
amateur telescopes; 1.5 billion light years away; requires superb sky!
|
| 33 |
NGC 6027 |
Seyfert's Sextet (6027 A-F); compact group of 6 small and very faint
galaxies; see Burnham's Handbook page 1793
|
| 34 |
B 72 |
Barnard's dark S-Nebula or `The Snake'; opacity of 6/6; 1.5 deg NNE
of theta Ophiuchi; area rich in dark nebulas
|
| 35 |
NGC 6791 |
large, faint but very rich open cluster with 300 stars; a faint smear
in smaller instruments; Type II 3 r
|
| 36 |
PK 64+5.1 |
Campbell's Hydrogen Star; very bright but very starlike; also catalogued
as star BD +30 3639
|
| 37 |
M 1-92 |
Minkowski 92 or Footprint Nebula; bright, starlike reflection nebula;
double at high magnification; associated star invisible
|
| 38 |
NGC 6822 |
Barnard's Galaxy; member of the Local Group; large but very low surface
brightness; requires transparent skies
|
| 39 |
IC 4997 |
bright but starlike planetary; the challenge is to see the disk!; blink
the field with and without a nebula filter
|
| 40 |
IC 1318 |
complex of nebulosity around gamma Cygni; multitude of patches in rich
starfield; use a very wide field plus filter
|
| 41 |
PK 80-6.1 |
the `Egg Nebula'; a very small proto-planetary nebula; can owners of
large telescopes detect polarization?
|
| 42 |
IC 1396 |
extremely large and diffuse area of emission nebulosity; use nebula
filter and very wide field optics in dark sky
|
| 43 |
IC 5146 |
Cocoon Nebula; faint and diffuse; use H-Beta filter; at the end of the
long filamentary dark nebula is Barnard 168
|
| 44 |
NGC 7317-20 |
Stephan's Quintet; 0.5 deg SSW of NGC 7331; easy to pick out 3 or 4
(also look for `companions' to 7331)
|
| 45 |
Jones 1 |
plotted as PK104 -29.1 (from Perek & Kohoutek catalogue) in Uranometria;
large dim glow; OIII filter required
|