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This page will provide you with information on over 7800 Deep Space Objects such as rise and set time, transit times, location at these times.
You are also provided the objects magnitude, diameter in Arc seconds and the distance from earth in thousands of light years as well as local sun rise and sun set times. You can select the objects by their Messier, NGC, Caldwell or IC numbers or by category or select the object from the list.

All these items are tailored to your location. So please provide you latitude and longitude. These values will be stored in a cookie so they will be available the next time you come to this page.

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Messier NGC Caldwell Index Catalog of Nebulae (IC) Sharpless 2 SAO

Object Number: Get NGC Cross-reference table ( as Spreadsheet )

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