Some Historic Deepsky Object Catalogs

Some Historic Deepsky Object Catalogs

Certainly, the most outstanding historical Deep Sky Object catalog is the

Messier Catalog, which is also the

subject of this online database.

Here we give links to some of the other early Deep Sky Object catalogs,

historically before and contemporary to Messier’s, but all before

Herschel’s great survey.

• Several smaller catalogs of historical importance are given in our

  History of Deep Sky Discovery page;

  this includes Halley’s 6-object catalog.

• Hodierna’s Deep Sky Observations
• Hevelius‘ obscure but historically important

  list of 16 “Nebulosae”

• De Cheseaux’s list of 21 “nebulae”
• Lacaille’s catalog
• Bode’s Catalog
• Caroline Herschel’s Deep Sky Discoveries (which were

  all included in William Herschel’s catalog)

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We would like to include more of the historic catalogs of “nebulous objects”

mentioned in our

History of Deepsky Discovery here,

especially Koehler’s catalog of 20.

Also, if you know of further historic Deep Sky catalogs (especially if suited

for amateur observing or “work-thru”) please

email me.

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• History of the Discovery of the Deepsky Objects
• Historical Deep Sky Objects:

  List of all 152 Deep Sky Object discovered before William Herschel began

  his extensive survey in September, 1782, in various formats

• More Deepsky Catalogs and Observing Lists
  

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  Hartmut Frommert

  ([email protected])

  Christine Kronberg

  ([email protected])

  

  

  

  

  

  Last Modification: 8 Feb 1998, 20:00 MET