Barnard Catalogue

Barnard 68, one of the objects listed in the catalogue

Target| Dark nebulae
Named after| Edward Emerson Barnard
Published| 1919

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The Barnard Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of dark nebulae.

A version of the Barnard Catalogue, containing 349 objects, can be accessed via VizieR.[1]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 Further reading
* 5 External links

## History

In 1919, the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard compiled a list of dark nebulae known as the Barnard Catalogue of Dark Markings in the Sky, or the Barnard Catalogue for short. The nebulae listed by Barnard have become known as Barnard objects.[2] A 1919 version of the catalogue listed 182 nebulae;[3] by the time of the posthumously published 1927 version, it listed 369.[4]

Barnard's niece and assistant Mary Ross Calvert, also an astronomer and astrographer, took an important part in creating the catalogue.[5]

## See also

* List of dark nebulae
* Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae

## References

1. ↑ "VizieR". https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=VII/220A.
2. ↑ Bok, B. J.; McCarthy, C. C. (1974), "Optical data for selected Barnard objects", Astronomical Journal 79: 42, doi:10.1086/111527, Bibcode: 1974AJ.....79...42B .
3. ↑ Barnard, E. E. (1919), "On the dark markings of the sky, with a catalogue of 182 such objects", Astrophysical Journal 49: 1–24, doi:10.1086/142439, Bibcode: 1919ApJ....49....1B
4. ↑ Frost, Edwin B.; Calvert, Mary R. (1927), A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way, Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington
5. ↑ Hughes, Stefan (2012) (in en). Catchers of the Light: The Forgotten Lives of the Men and Women Who First Photographed the Heavens. ArtDeCiel Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62050-961-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=iZk5OOf7fVYC&q=mary+calvert+milky+way&pg=PA678.

* Lynds, Beverly T. (1962). "Catalogue of Dark Nebulae". Astrophysical Journal Supplement 7: 1. doi:10.1086/190072. Bibcode: 1962ApJS....7....1L.

## Further reading

* Hunter, Tim B., Dobek, Gerald O. and McGaha, James E. (2023). The Barnard Objects: Then and Now. Springer. ISBN 9783031314841.

## External links

* Barnard's Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky, VizieR listing at CDS

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