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Deep Sky Observer's Companion – the online database

 

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Other web resources

  1. SIMBAD Astronomical Database
  2. NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
  3. CDS: Centre de Données astronomiquesde Strasbourg
  4. ADS: SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
  5. WEBDA database, at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Vienna
  6. arXiv: astro-ph open-access e-prints
  7. Hartmut Frommert's deep sky pages at SEDS
  8. IAU Circulars
  9. Harold Corwin's "Historically-aware NGC/IC Positions and Notes"
  10. Courtney Seligman's "Celestial Atlas"
  11. Wolfgang Steinicke's "Discovery and Cataloguing of Nebulae and Star Clusters" (Revised NGC/IC data)
  12. The NGC/IC Project
  1. The Belt of Venus: Astronomical Sketching Resources Page, by Jeremy Perez
  2. Dark Sky Images, by Scott Tucker
  3. Catching the Light: Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss
  4. Ted's CCD Imaging, by Ted Dobosz
  5. SSRO Star Shadow Remote Observatory
  6. Astro Optik, by Philipp Keller
  7. Star Echoes, Astrophotography by Marco Lorenzi
  1. The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
  2. SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys (SSS)
  3. USNO Flagstaff Station Integrated Image and Catalogue Archive Service
  4. NGC Galaxies in the SDSS Data Release 2 (DR2)
  5. SDSS images of selected RC3 galaxies

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