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August
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April
March
February
December
November
October
The RASC's 110 Finest NGC Objects
80
2655
UMi 70
Cep
6503
40
7129 6543
7635
60
6939
663
4490
Cyg
6819
6888
CrB
5033
Boo
Her
6960
Vul
4565
Com
6210
6802
6633
Equ Del
Aql
Ser
6572
6781
3344
6818
Cnc
3628
4517
2194
CMi
Crt
Sex
-30
Sgr
1788
2024
2359
2539
CMa
3242
Lep
2440
246
1232
Pyx
6520
253
For Sco
Lup
Pup
Ant
Col
Cen
Tel Ara
Scl
Cae
CrA
-50
Cet
Eri
1535
4038/9
Mic Gru
936
1973
6369
PsA
Ori
Mon
Hya
4361
6445
Psc
2022
2261 2237
3521
Crv
Lib
7293
Ari 772
3115
Sct
Tau
2392
3384
4699
Cap
-20
Gem
Leo
Oph 6712
Tri
1514
2371/2
Vir
5746
Aqr 7009
2683
3003
2903
4567/8 4438 4216 4762 4388 4535 4526
0
-10
1931
3607
10
Phe
Vel
Nor
Pic
Hor
Cru
Ind
-60
LMi
4274 4494
And
1023
4414
Sge
Peg
-40
4559 4725
891
3432
3941
281
185
Per
Aur
3184
4214
4631 4656/7
5466
6940
20
4244
5005
6992/5
7331
Lyn
4111
457
2841
4449
Lyr 30
869/84
UMa
4088 4026 CVn4157 3877
6826
7027
IC 289
3079
7000
7662
1501
5907
50
40
Cas
4605
6946
Lac
Cam
2403
Dra
7789
Declination (°)
January
Tuc
Dor
Car
Pav
TrA
Cir
Vol
Mus
-70
Ret Hyi
Aps -80
Men
Cha
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
Right Ascension (hours) Star Double star Globular Cluster Open Cluster Asterism
Open Cluster with Nebulosity Nebula Planetary Nebula Supernova Remnant Galaxy Quasar
Mag -1 Mag 0 Mag 1 Mag 2 Mag 3 Mag 4 Mag 5
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
v1.0 - 14th February 2014 - http://www.JimsCosmos.com
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) has published this catalogue in their yearly Observer's Handbook. (http://www.rasc.ca/) The 110 Finest N.G.C. Objects List was compiled by Alan Dyer; it is arranged sorted by seasons and constellations. 12 Open Clusters : Including the famous Double Cluster in Perseus, NGC 7789 in Cassiopeia and NGC 6633 in Ophiuchus. 2 Globular Clusters : NGC 5466 in Bootes and NGC 6712 in Scutum. 14 Diffuse Nebulae : Includes the great Veil Nebula as well as the North American and Rosette Nebulae. 24 Planetary Nebulae : Includes many fine PN's like the Ghost of Jupiter, the Cat's Eye, the Blinking Planetary, the Helix, the Blue Snowball and the Clown Face Nebulae. 58 Galaxies : Includes the amazing NGC 4565 in Coma Berenices, NGC 253 in Sculptor and NGC 5907 in Draco. 110 Objects : The Finest NGC list can be started during any season, and completes the Messier Catalogue as there is no overlap.
The RASC's Finest NGC Objects List by Alan Dyer No.
NGC
Con
Type
R.A.
Dec
m_v
Size
Notes
No.
NGC
Con
Type
R.A.
Dec
Autumn 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
7009 7293 7331 7635 7789 185 281 457 663 IC 289 7662 891 253 772 246 936 869/84 1023 1491 1501 1232 1535
Aqr Aqr Peg Cas Cas Cas Cas Cas Cas Cas And And Scl Ari Cet Cet Per Per Per Cam Eri Eri
PN PN G-Sb EN OC G-E0 EN OC OC PN PN G-Sb G-Scp G-Sb PN G-SBa OC G-E7p EN PN G-Sc PN
21h04mn 22h29mn 22h37mn 23h20mn 23h57mn 00h39mn 00h52mn 01h19mn 01h46mn 03h10mn 23h25mn 02h22mn 00h47mn 01h59mn 00h47mn 02h27mn 02h20mn 02h40mn 04h03mn 04h07mn 03h09mn 04h14mn
-11°02' -20°48' +34°25' +61°12' +56°44' +48°20' +56°36' +58°20' +61°15' +61°19' +42°33' +42°21' -25°17' +19°01' -11°53' -01°09' +57°08' +39°04' +51°19' +60°55' -20°35' -12°44'
8.3 6.5 9.5 6.7 11.7 6.4 7.1 12.3 9.2 10 7.1 10.3 8.0 10.1 ~4.4 9.5 12 9.9 10.4
25" 12'50" 10.7x4.0 15x8 16 2x2 35x30 13 16 34" 20" 13.5x2.8 25.1x7.4 7.1x4.5 3'45" 5.2x4.4 30/30 8.7x4.3 3.0x3.0 52" 7.8x6.9 18"
1514 1931 1788 1973+ 2022 2024 2194 2371/2 2392 2237+ 2261 2359 2440 2539 2403 2655
Tau Aur Ori Ori Ori Ori Ori Gem Gem Mon Mon CMa Pup Pup Cam Cam
PN E/RN RN E/RN PN EN OC PN PN EN E/RN EN PN OC G-Sc G-Sa
04h09mn 05h31mn 05h06mn 05h35mn 05h42mn 05h40mn 06h13mn 07h25mn 07h29mn 06h32mn 06h39mn 07h18mn 07h41mn 08h10mn 07h36mn 08h55mn
+30°47' +34°15' -03°21' -04°44' +09°05' -02°27' +12°48' +29°29' +20°55' +05°03' +08°44' -13°12' -18°13' -12°50' +65°36' +78°13'
10.8 12.4 8.5 13.0 8.3 var 10.3 6.5 8.4 10.1
39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
2683 2841 3079 3184 3877 3941 4026 4088 4157 4605 3115 3242 3003 3344 3432 2903 3384
Lyn UMa UMa UMa UMa UMa UMa UMa UMa UMa Sex Hya LMi LMi LMi Leo Leo
G-Sb G-Sb G-Sb G-Sc G-Sb G-E3 G-S0 G-Sc G-Sb G-SBcp G-E6 PN G-Sc G-Sc G-SBm G-Sb G-E7
08h52mn 09h22mn 10h02mn 10h18mn 11h46mn 11h52mn 11h59mn 12h05mn 12h11mn 12h40mn 10h05mn 10h24mn 09h48mn 10h43mn 10h52mn 09h32mn 10h48mn
+33°25' +50°58' +55°41' +41°25' +47°30' +36°59' +50°58' +50°33' +50°29' +61°37' -07°43' -18°38' +33°25' +24°55' +36°37' +21°30' +12°38'
9.7 9.3 10.6 9.7 10.9 9.8 10.7 10.5 11.9 9.6 9.2 8.6 11.7 9.9 11.3 8.9 9.9
1'54" 3.0x3.0 8.0x5.0 40x25 18" 30x30 10 55" 13" 80x60 2x1 8.0x6.0 14" 22 17.8x11.0 5.1x4.4
!! Saturn Nebula; small bright oval !! Helix Nebula; large, diffuse; use filter !! large, bright spiral galaxy Bubble Neb.; very faint; 1/2 deg SW of M52 !! 300*; faint but very rich cluster; White Rose Cluster companion to M31; paired with NGC 147 !! large faint nebulosity near eta Cas; Pacman Nebula 80*; rich; one of the best Cas clusters; Owl / E.T. Cluster 80*; look for NGC's 654 and 659 nearby dim oval smudge; use nebula filter !! Blue Snowball; annular at high power !! faint, classic edge-on with dust lane !! very large and bright but at low altitude; Sculptor Galaxy diffuse spiral galaxy faint (closer to 11 m); dark mottling; Skull Nebula near M77; NGC 941 in the same field !! Double Cluster; 350*; use low mag. bright lens-shaped galaxy near M34 small fairly faint emission nebula faint; dark center; look for NGC 1502; Camel's Eye face-on spiral; look for NGC 1300 nearby bright planetary with blue-grey disk; Cleopatra's Eye faint glow around 9.4 mag central star; Crystal Ball Nebula haze surrounding 4 close stars; Fly Nebula fairly bright but diffuse reflection nebula near M42 and M43; often neglected; Running Man Nebula small, faint & distinct with annular form bright but masked by glow from Zeta Ori; Flame Nebula 80*, fairly rich; look for 2169 nearby faint double-lobed planetary; use filter; Peanut Nebula !! Clown Face or Eskimo Nebula !! Rosette Neb.; very large; use neb. filter Hubble's Variable Nebula; comet-shaped bright; look for NGC 2360 & 2362 nearby; Thor's Helmet almost starlike; irregular at high power 50*; rich cluster; near M46 and M47 !! very large & bright; visible in binocs. bright ellipse with starlike nucleus
Spring 9.3x2.5 8.1x3.8 7.6x1.7 6.9x6.8 5.4x1.5 3.8x2.5 5.1x1.4 5.8x2.5 6.9x1.7 5.5x2.3 8.3x3.2 16" 5.9x1.7 6.9x6.5 6.2x1.5 12.6x6.6 5.9x2.6
Size
Notes
Spring
Winter 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
m_v
nearly edge-on spiral; very bright !! classic elongated spiral; very bright edge-on spiral; NGC 2950 nearby large, diffuse face-on spiral edge-on; same field as chi UMa small bright elliptical lense-shaped edge-on near gamma UMa nearly edge-on; NGC 4085 in same field a thin sliver; NGCs 4026 & 4088 nearby bright distinct edge-on spiral Spindle Galaxy; bright and elongated !! Ghost of Jupiter; small but bright faint elongated streak diffuse face-on spiral nearly edge-on; faint flat streak !! very large, bright elongated spiral same field as M105 and NGC 3389
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89
3521 3607 3628 4111 4214 4244 4449 4490 4631 4656/7 5005 5033 4274 4414 4494 4559 4565 4725 4038/9 4361 4216 4388 4438 4517 4526 4535 4567/8 4699 4762 5746 5466 5907 6503 6543
Leo Leo Leo CVn CVn CVn CVn CVn CVn CVn CVn CVn Com Com Com Com Com Com Crv Crv Vir Vir Vir Vir Vir Vir Vir Vir Vir Vir Boo Dra Dra Dra
G-Sb G-E1 G-Sb G-S0 G-Irr G-S G-Irr G-Sc G-Sc G-Sc G-Sb G-Sb G-Sb G-Sc G-E1 G-Sc G-Sb G-Sb G-Sc PN G-Sb G-Sb G-Sap G-Sc G-E7 G-Sc G-Sc G-Sa G-SB0 G-Sb GC G-Sb G-Sb PN
11h05mn 11h16mn 11h20mn 12h07mn 12h15mn 12h17mn 12h28mn 12h30mn 12h42mn 12h44mn 13h10mn 13h13mn 12h19mn 12h26mn 12h31mn 12h36mn 12h36mn 12h50mn 12h01mn 12h24mn 12h15mn 12h25mn 12h27mn 12h32mn 12h34mn 12h34mn 12h36mn 12h49mn 12h52mn 14h44mn 14h05mn 15h15mn 17h49mn 17h58mn
-00°02' +18°03' +13°36' +43°04' +36°20' +37°49' +44°06' +41°38' +32°32' +32°10' +37°03' +36°36' +29°37' +31°13' +25°47' +27°58' +25°59' +25°30' -18°52' -18°48' +13°09' +12°40' +13°01' +00°07' +07°42' +08°12' +11°15' -08°40 +11°14' +01°57' +28°32' +56°19' +70°09' +66°38'
90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99a 99b 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110
6210 6369 6572 6633 6712 6781 6819 6826 6888 6960 6992/5 7000 7027 6445 6520 6818 6802 6940 6939 6946 7129 40
Her Oph Oph Oph Sct Aql Cyg Cyg Cyg Cyg Cyg Cyg Cyg Sgr Sgr Sgr Vul Vul Cep Cep Cep Cep
PN PN PN OC GC PN OC PN SNR? SNR SNR EN PN? PN OC PN OC OC OC G-Sc RN PN
16h44mn 17h29mn 18h12mn 18h27mn 18h53mn 19h18mn 19h41mn 19h44mn 20h12mn 20h45mn 20h56mn 20h58mn 21h07mn 17h49mn 18h03mn 19h44mn 19h30mn 20h34mn 20h31mn 20h34mn 21h44mn 00h13mn
+23°49' -23°46' +06°51' +06°34' -08°42' +06°33' +40°11' +50°31' +38°21' +30°43' +31°43' +44°20' +42°14' -20°01' -27°54' -14°09' +20°16' +28°18' +60°38' +60°09' +66°10' +72°32'
8.7 10.0 9.5 10.8 9.7 10.2 9.4 9.8 9.3 10.4 9.8 10.1 10.4 10.2 9.8 9.8 9.6 9.2 10.7 10.3 9.9 11.0 10.1 10.5 9.6 9.8 ~11 9.6 10.2 10.6 9.1 10.4 10.2 8.8
9.5x5.0 3.7x3.2 14.8x3.6 4.8x1.1 7.9x6.3 16.2x2.5 5.1x3.7 5.9x3.1 15.1x3.3 13.8x3.3 5.4x2.7 10.5x5.6 6.9x2.8 3.6x2.2 4.8x3.8 10.5x4.9 16.2x2.8 11.0x7.9 ~3x2 45" 8.3x2.2 5.1x1.4 9.3x3.9 10.2x1.9 7.6x2.3 6.8x5.0 4.6x2.1 3.5x2.7 8.7x1.6 7.9x1.7 11.0 12.3x1.8 6.2x2.3 18"
very large, bright spiral NGCs 3605 & 3608 in same field large edge-on; same field as M65 and M66; Hamburger bright lens-shaped edge-on spiral large irregular galaxy !! large distinct edge-on spiral bright rectangular shape bright spiral; 4485 (Cocoon gal.) in field !! large edge-on; look for companion 4627; Whale Galaxy in field with 4631; NE end curves up; Hockey Stick gal. bright elongated spiral near alpha CVn large bright spiral near NGC 5005 NGCs 4278/83/86 in same field bright spiral with starlike nucleus small bright elliptical large spiral with coarse structure !! superb edge-on spiral with dust lane; Needle Galaxy very bright, large spiral "Antennae" or "Rattail" interacting galaxies small and bright; with 13-mag central star nearly edge-on; with NGCs 4206 & 4222 with M84 and M86 in Markarian's Chain paired with NGC 4435 to form the "Eyes" faint edge-on spiral between two 7-mag stars; the "Lost Galaxy" near M49 and 3/4 deg N of NGC 4526 "Siamese Twins" interacting galaxies small & bright; look for NGC 4697 3 deg N flattest galaxy known; 4754 in same field fine edge-on near 109 Virginis loose class XII; like rich open cl.; faint fine edge-on with dust lane; near 5866; Splinter Galaxy bright elongated spiral Cat's Eye Nebula; with 11 mag central star
Summer 9.3 10.4 9.0 4.6 8.2 11.8 7.3 9.8 10.4 11.8 8.1 9.9 8.8 6.3 7.8 8.9 10.2
14" 30" 8" 27 7.2 1'49" 5 30" 20x10 70x6 78x8 120x100 15" 34" 6 17" 3.2 31 8 11.0x9.8 8x7 37"
very starlike blue planetary; Turtle Nebula Little Ghost; look for NGC 6309 nearby tiny bright blue oval; Emerald Nebula sparse wide field cluster; IC 4756 nearby small globular; look for IC 1295 in field pale version of M97; Snowglobe Nebula 150*; faint but rich cluster in Milky Way !! Blinking Planetary; 10.4-mag central star Crescent Nebula; faint; use nebula filter !! Veil Nebula: west half; use filter ! !! Veil Nebula: east half; use filter ! !! North America N; use filter & low mag. unusual protoplanetary nebula; Magic Carpet Nebula small, bright and annular; near M23 60*; small; dark neb. B86 in same field Little Gem; annular; NGC 6822 0.75 deg S at east end of Brocchi's cluster Cr 399 60*; fairly rich cluster in Milky Way 80*; very rich; faint, diffuse face-on spiral near 6939 faint reflection neb. around several stars unusual red planetary; 11.6 mag central star; Bow Tie N
PN: Planetary Nebula, SNR: Supernova Remnant, EN: (diffuse) Emission Nebula, RN: (diffuse) Reflection Nebula, E/RN: Diffuse Emission and Reflection Nebula, OC: Open Cluster, GC: Globular Cluster, G-: Galaxy, with Hubble type given
