Thanks, Bill.

Regarding the Herschel 400 (the first list), the dataset that is part
of Guide 8.0 is much different from the one posted by the
Astronomical League at

http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/herschel/hers400.html

I've found that there are 34 incorrect objects, i.e. 34 NGC numbers
listed in the dataset that are not in the A.L. list, and 34 entries
in the A.L. list that do not appear in the dataset.

I've also created by own version of the Herschel 400 dataset, similar
to my Herschel II dataset. Let me know if you would like for me to
send you that one too.

Doug

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> Thanks for sending this. I've posted it at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/hersche2.zip (about 10 KBytes)
>
> I've also posted the full "Herschel 2500" list as a user-added
> dataset at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/h2500.zip (about 44 KBytes)
>
> As you noted, the lists aren't identical. Herschel found 2514
> objects. The Herschel 400 is a subset of the 400 most prominent or
> "interesting" of these. The Herschel II list is yet another,
> non-intersecting subset of the 400 "next most interesting" objects
from
> the list.
>
> In the H2500 list, I've added an asterisk to mark objects that
are
> also part of the Herschel 400. At some point, I may add an
indicator
> as to which objects are members of Herschel II... but the above
files
> ought to serve for the nonce.
>
> I'm falling drastically behind on user-added datasets; I have
quite
> a few submissions to post on the 'extras' page... my apologies to
all
> for the backlog!
>
> -- Bill
>