NGC and IC spreadsheets

[george7378]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know where I can find spreadsheets of the NGC and IC catalogues, and also any other deep sky objects? I want to be able to order them by things like magnitude, etc...

Thanks!

[Pavel]

Sometimes I help myself lookin in:

http://www.docdb.net/object_index.php

but I don`t know that I understood your request.

[acey]

Wolfgang Steinicke has been editing the NGC/IC and there are spreadsheets at his site, which has a lot of other NGC/IC info too.

Astronomie-Homepage von Wolfgang Steinicke

Various DSO spreadsheets (e.g. Herschel, Hickson, Abell etc) are at Adventures In Deep Space:

http://astronomy-mall.com/Adventures.In.Deep.Space/catalogs.htm

[Keiran]

have you tried wiki...

List of NGC objects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[acey]

OP asked for spreadsheet.

For searchable data the best place is the NGC/IC project:

The NGC / IC Project - Home of the Historically Corrected New General Catalogue (HCNGC) since 1993

[Pavel]

Oh, I added link hurriedly and now I remembered what is "spreadsheet"; so, forgive me.

may that`s you need:

DSO

or spreadsheet prepared for NGC data :

Files to Download

[george7378]

Thanks for all the links - I especially like the 'Best NGC list' from the Astro-Tom website. There seem to be a lot of NGC objects - it's funny how we don't see a galaxy or nebula in every random field of view! I guess most are too dim to be seen. How many do you think would be within the limit of a 10" scope from a dark site?

[acey]

The limiting factor is sky darkness. With a sufficiently dark sky a 12" should be sufficient to see nearly all of the NGC (which has more than 7000 objects). With 10" you could certainly get into the thousands given sufficient perseverance. At a light polluted site things are lot harder. The Herschel 400-I list (400 objects) is well within the ability of an 8" and makes a nice observing list. For a shorter "best non-Messier NGC" list my choice is the RASC list, though I don't know a spreadsheet link for that.

Astronomical Catalogs in Excel

The RASC's Finest N.G.C. Objects List