Books by Philip S. Harrington

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Topics covered

     History of deep-sky catalogs

• Johann Bayer: star catalog

• John Flamsteed: star catalog

• Wilhelm and Otto Struve: double star catalog

• R.G. Aitken: double-star catalog

• Charles Messier: Messier catalog of deep-sky objects

• William Herschel: "General Catalog" of deep-sky objects

• John Herschel: Expanded "General Catalog" of deep-sky objects

• John Dreyer: New General Catalog of deep-sky objects (NGC) and supplemental Index Catalogs (IC)

• Edward Emerson Barnard: dark-nebulae catalog

• Miscellaneous catalogs

Chapter 2 updates

• None (so far)

Recommended reading

    Books

• The Messier Album; Mallas, J. and Kreimer, E.; Sky Publishing, 1994; ISBN: 0933346042.  Out of print.

• The Messier Objects; O'Meara, S.; Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd), 2000; ISBN: 0521553326.

• Sky Catalogue 2000.0: Volume 2; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 0521277213.

    Web sites

• Deep Sky Collections and Catalogs

• Messier, Herschel, the NGC.  You name it, it's here!

• History of the Discovery of Deep Sky Objects

  • Historical overview

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