Miscellaneous "extra" files for use with Guide

Last updated 10 November 2003

(10 November 2003) .TDF and data file to display the Preliminary Amateur Open Cluster Catalogue (PAOCC): This catalog was compiled by members of the Deep Sky Hunters group, and lists assorted asterisms that range from "almost certainly not real clusters" to "definitely open clusters." The .TDF file to display the catalog was provided by Philippe Laurent, and sent to me by Bertrand Laville.

You can click here to download the catalog (about 14 KBytes). It currently contains 670 entries. UnZIP the file in your Guide directory, and look in Extras... Toggle User-Added Datasets for the "DSH catalog". Turn this on, and you will see the various objects from this catalog.

Bertrand Laville notes: "...Many of these DSO are named by three letters ANR, followed by RA and Dec: they have been 'discovered' by members of Ciel Extreme, the French deep sky association, and ANR means "amas non repertories", or "non referenced clusters"... unfortunately, [this catalog] does not give magnitudes; thus, you can only display or not clusters."