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| 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
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| 2 | IC 59 | faint emission/reflection nebulosity paired with IC 63 close to gamma Cas; requires clean optics; rated as 'pF'
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| 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)
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| 4 | IC 1795 | brightest part of a complex nebulosity that includes IC 1805 and IC 1848; use a nebula filter
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| 5 | Maffei 1 | heavily reddened galaxy; very faint; requires large aperture and black skies; nearby Maffei II probably invisible
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| 6 | NGC 1049 | Class V globular in dward 'Fornax system' Local Group galaxy 630,000 ly away, galaxy itself invisible ?
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| 7 | NGC 1275 | Perseus A exploding galaxy; brightest member of Abell 426 gal. cl. 300 million ly away; see Webb vol. 5
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| 8 | NGC 1432/35 | Pleiades nebulosity (also includes IC 349); brightest around Merope; requires transparent sky and clean optics
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| 9 | IC 342 | large and diffuse face-on spiral; member of UMa-Cam cloud (Kemble's Cascade of stars also in this chart)
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| 10 | NGC 1499 | California Nebula; very large and faint; use a wide-field telescope or big binoculars plus H-Beat filter
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| 11 | NGC 1554/5 | Hind's Variable Nebula; small reflect. neb. around 9m-13m var. star T Tau; use high power; difficulty varies
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| 12 | IC 405 | Flaming Star Nebula; associated with runaway star AE Aurigae; see Burnham's Handbook page 285 (also look for IC 410)
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| 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!
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| 14 | Sh 2-276 | Barnard's Loop; SNR or interstellar bubble?; difficult to detect due to size; use filter and sweep with wide field
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 17 | J 900 | Jonckheere 900; bright starlike planetary; plotted as PK 194 +2.1 in Uranometria; use OIII filter and high power
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| 18 | IC 2177 | Eagle Nebula; large, faint; contains bright patches Gum 1 (-10d 28'), NGC 2327 (-11d 18') & Ced 90 (-12d 20')
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| 19 | PK 205+14.1 | Medusa Nebula or Abell 21; much larger than plotted in Uranometria; impressive in large aperture with OIII filter
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| 20 | NGC 2419 | at 200 000 light years away the most distant Milky Way globular for amateur telescopes; very small and faint; Class II
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| 21 | PK 164+31.1 | extremely faint with two small components; use OIII filter; sometimes confused with nearby NGC 2474-75
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| 22 | Leo I | dwarf elliptical; satellite of Milky Way; very low surface brightness; 0.3deg N of Regulus!; requires clean optics
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| 23 | Abell 1367 | cluster of some 30 or more galaxies within a 1deg field near 93 Leonis; see Webb Handbook Volume 5, page 139
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| 24 | NGC 3172 | 'Polarissma Borealis' - closest galaxy to the North Celestial Pole; small, faint and otherwise unremarkable
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| 25 | NGC 4236 | very large, dim barred spiral; a diffuse glow (NGC 4395 on Chart 108 is a similar large diffuse face-on)
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| 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
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| 27 | 3C 273 | at 2 to 3 billion light years away one of the most distant objects visible in amateur telescopes; magnitude variable
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| 28 | NGC 4676 | 'The Mice' or VV 224 - two classic interacting galaxies; very faint; double nature detectable at high power
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| 29 | Abell 1656 | Coma Berenices galaxy cluster; very rich; 400 million light years away; brightest member NGC 4889; see Webb Volume 5
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| 30 | NGC 5053 | faint and very loose globular 1deg SE of M53; requires large aperture to resolve; difficult in hazy skies; Class XI
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| 31 | NGC 5897 | large, faint and loose globular; magnitude 10.9 in Atlas Coeli Catalogue; requires large aperture to resolve; Class XI
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| 32 | Abell 2065 | Corona Borealis galaxy cluster; perhaps the most difficult object for amateur telescopes; 1.5 billion light years away; requires superb sky!
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| 33 | NGC 6027 | Seyfert's Sextet (6027 A-F); compact group of 6 small and very faint galaxies; see Burnham's Handbook page 1793
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| 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
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| 35 | NGC 6791 | large, faint but very rich open cluster with 300 stars; a faint smear in smaller instruments; Type II 3 r
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| 36 | PK 64+5.1 | Campbell's Hydrogen Star; very bright but very starlike; also catalogued as star BD +30 3639
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| 37 | M 1-92 | Minkowski 92 or Footprint Nebula; bright, starlike reflection nebula; double at high magnification; associated star invisible
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| 38 | NGC 6822 | Barnard's Galaxy; member of the Local Group; large but very low surface brightness; requires transparent skies
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| 39 | IC 4997 | bright but starlike planetary; the challenge is to see the disk!; blink the field with and without a nebula filter
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| 40 | IC 1318 | complex of nebulosity around gamma Cygni; multitude of patches in rich starfield; use a very wide field plus filter
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| 41 | PK 80-6.1 | the 'Egg Nebula'; a very small proto-planetary nebula; can owners of large telescopes detect polarization?
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| 42 | IC 1396 | extremely large and diffuse area of emission nebulosity; use nebula filter and very wide field optics in dark sky
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| 43 | IC 5146 | Cocoon Nebula; faint and diffuse; use H-Beta filter; at the end of the long filamentary dark nebula is Barnard 168
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| 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)
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| 45 | Jones 1 | plotted as PK104 -29.1 (from Perek and Kohoutek catalogue) in Uranometria; large dim glow; OIII filter required
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