8.2  Catalogs 

Level 3 software contains 

8290 objects of the New General Catalog (NGC) 

5437 objects of the Index Catalog (IC)  

110 Messier objects 

Credits for compiling the above data to goes Wolfgang Steinicke.  For a 

list of the objects, please visit the pages of Wolfgang Steinicke at the site 

of the NGC/IC project (http://www.ngcic.org).  

17636 SAO stars down to 7th magnitude 

169 Bright Stars with common names 

313 HII objects of the Sharpless 2 catalog 

8 Planets, Sun and Moon.  

3989 Double Stars selected from the Washington Double Star catalog,  

1143 Planetary Nebulae of the Strasbourg/ESO Galactic Planetary Objects 

catalog, including most objects of the PK (Perek, Kohoutek) catalog  

1802 Dark Nebulae from Lynds' Catalog of Dark Nebulae 

1125 Bright Nebulae from Lynds' Catalog of Bright Nebulae  

... and 4000+ User Catalogs objects down  and uploadable via the serial interface. 

You can prepare your observations by building user catalogs using your computer and 

downloading them into the Gemini using the Gemini Control program. Well prepared 

observing, together with the automatic logging of your actions, can be much more 

effective. 

For complete listings of the contents of each catalog, go to the Gemini website at 

http://www.docgoerlich.de/Rene.html 

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