Hi Bill,

I've put together a dataset for the Herschel II list. I emailed it to
you directly last night. Let me know what you think.

BTW, I'm a recent Guide convert. Great product!

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
>