Sharpless catalog

Sharpless catalog

The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 HII regions (emission nebulae), intended to be comprehensive north of declination -27°. (It does include some nebulae south of that declination as well.) The final version was published by US astronomer Stewart Sharpless in 1959.

External links

[http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?VII/20 Original catalog]

[http://galaxymap.org/cgi-bin/sharpless.py?s=1 Illustrated and annotated commentary]


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