Hi Bill,

FYI, the Herschel II list pointed to by the link you provided below
bears little resemblance to the list on the Rose City Astronomers
(the club that created the list) web site:

http://www.rca-omsi.org/herschl2/h2index.htm

Also note that this is the web site that the Astronomical League
points to on their web site for the Herschel II list.

Doug Scobel

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Hmmm... a bit of Googling reveals the following facts:
>
> The original Herschel 400 is a subset of the 2514 objects
catalogued
> by William Herschel. The full list is at
>
> http://obs.nineplanets.org/herschel/h2500.txt
>
> The Herschel II list appears to be another subset of 400 from
this
> list. I've found a copy at
>
> http://www.maa.agleia.de/Messier/E/Xtra/Similar/her400l2a.txt
>
> Each of these lists gives NGC and IC cross-references, and it
may
> be possible to generate lists with improved coordinates from the
NGC-IC
> Project data. I will investigate.
>
> -- Bill
>