Deep Sky Hunter - A new 14m DSO atlas

[Michael11]

Hello all,

I'm not a very active member, but I read SGL a lot, I thought there will be no harm reposting this, and share a new atlas I've assembled.

http://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html

This is a printable atlas for deep sky observing, which I've tried to make as clean and readable as possible. It has DSOs down to 14m and stars downto 10.2m, 21 "zoom in" charts, constellation lines, marked "best objects", navigation marks, index. There are 101 pages (+10 supplements), and the atlas was designed for printing on A3 paper (though you may find it useable on A4 as well). In any case print at high resolution (600dpi).

Example of Scorpius region:

Part of close Virgo cluster close up chart:

There is a download link at my site, and if it doesn't work for some reason - use a mirror link at the end.

[DirkSteele]

Impressive work. Thanks for sharing.

[nightvision]

Welcome to SGL Michael and thanks for making such a useful reference available!

[Michael11]

The images didn't work, and I can't find an "edit post" button.

Anyway:

[Michael11]

And of course I meant to post this link, to the correct version :

http://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html

[nightvision]

And of course I meant to post this link, to the correct version :

http://www.deepskywa...nter-atlas.html

ah! another download under way, hmm 43mb, thanks again.

Like the observers guide with all the images, very useful.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice work. Might need a bigger scope to see all of that stuff, but hey, that's what aperture fever is all about

[crashtestdummy]

welcome Micheal and big thanks for the links,lots of time went into that im sure!!!

[Michael11]

Thanks =)

Actually it is supposed to be an encouragement for me to get a bigger scope as well

[mdstuart]

Very good.....but....

i find with faint galaxies you need an even more detailed sheet to be sure you are looking in the right place...

so can you generate a selection of charts for mag 12 - 13.9 galaxies ....only joking..your atlas is the best dso atlas I have ever seen..

mark

[Michael11]

You are right by the way. While I'm hunting for galaxies which are nearing my limit (usually 13-13.5m) - I use sky safari software to help me out.

[alan potts]

Excellent work many thanks for posting this.

Alan

[Stargazer_00]

Thanks. I've posted your URL before as a guide for people to use beyond the messier catalogue. Thanks for all your hard work You deserve kudos for the effort you put in. Thank you.

[Michael11]

I've made some minor updates and fixes to the whole atlas. Also all "SAC's best of NGC" objects are marked with a star (*), in addition to Messier, Caldwell and Herschel400 objects.

There are also two references:

1: List of DSOs down to magnitude 14 from SAC database, formatted for A3 - it basically includes almost all objects plotted in this atlas.

2: List with images of chosen 700 DSOs, which include all the objects marked with a star in this atlas (among others)

Can be downloaded from the same page: http://www.deepskywa...ative_downloads