Barnard Catalogue

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Barnard Catalogue
Barnard 68.jpg
Barnard 68, one of the objects listed in the catalogue
Target Dark nebulae
Named after Edward Emerson Barnard
Published1919
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The Barnard Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of dark nebulae.

Contents

A version of the Barnard Catalogue, containing 349 objects, can be accessed via VizieR. [1]

History

In 1919, the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard compiled a list of dark nebulae known as the Barnard Catalogue of Dark Markings in the Sky, or the Barnard Catalogue for short. The nebulae listed by Barnard have become known as Barnard objects. [2] A 1919 version of the catalogue listed 182 nebulae; [3] by the time of the posthumously published 1927 version, it listed 369. [4]

Barnard's niece and assistant Mary Ross Calvert, also an astronomer and astrographer, took an important part in creating the catalogue. [5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "VizieR". vizier.cds.unistra.fr. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  2. ↑ Bok, B. J.; McCarthy, C. C. (1974), "Optical data for selected Barnard objects", Astronomical Journal, 79: 42, Bibcode:1974AJ.....79...42B, doi:10.1086/111527 .
  3. ↑ Barnard, E. E. (1919), "On the dark markings of the sky, with a catalogue of 182 such objects", Astrophysical Journal, 49: 1–24, Bibcode:1919ApJ....49....1B, doi:10.1086/142439
  4. ↑ Frost, Edwin B.; Calvert, Mary R. (1927), A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington
  5. ↑ Hughes, Stefan (2012). Catchers of the Light: The Forgotten Lives of the Men and Women Who First Photographed the Heavens. ArtDeCiel Publishing. ISBN   978-1-62050-961-6.

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