The Barnard Catalogue is an
astronomical catalogue of
dark nebulae.
A version of the Barnard Catalogue, containing 349 objects, can be accessed via
VizieR.
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. A 1919 version of the catalogue listed 182 nebulae; by the time of the posthumously published 1927 version, it listed 369.
Barnard's niece and assistant
Mary Ross Calvert, also an astronomer and astrographer, took an important part in creating the catalogue.
See also
*
List of dark nebulae
This is a list of dark nebulae (absorption nebulae), also called "dark clouds".
List
* Finger of God Globule
*E Nebula (Barnard 142 and 143)
*Barnard 68, possibly the closest to Earth at about 400 light-years.
*Le Gentil 3
*Sandqvist 111
*Sandqv ...
*
Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
References
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Further reading
* Hunter, Tim B., Dobek, Gerald O. and McGaha, James E. (2023). The Barnard Objects: Then and Now.
Springer
Springer or springers may refer to:
Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag.
** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
. ISBN 9783031314841.
External links
Barnard's Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky VizieR listing at
CDS
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Astronomical catalogues of nebulae
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