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Future CSOG

As plenty of celestial catalogs and lists remain, CSOG will continue to expand and will continue to be updated for many years to come. Where applicable, information in new editions is incorporated into existing content.

CSOG 3.0

To be published 29 November 2024. 18 New editions:

  • KPG - Karachentsev Isolated Pairs of Galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere
  • Hubble nebulae
  • McDonald nebulae & regions
  • Cederblad nebulae
  • Strohmeier nebulae
  • Courtès nebulae
  • Simeis nebulae
  • Gaze-Shajn nebulae
  • Stromlo nebulae
  • Münch nebulae
  • Sharpless nebulae
  • Herbig nebulae
  • Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov nebulae
  • Kazarian-Parsamian planetary nebulae
  • Kazarian nebulae
  • Humason planetary nebulae
  • Van den Bergh (suspected) supernova remnants
  • The Herschel Sprint

Beyond CSOG 3.0

After publication of CSOG 3.0, new editions will be added incrementally. Order of appearance may change.

  • All Deep Sky Forum's Objects of the Week since the year 2012
  • All the Webb Deep-Sky Society's Objects of the Month since the year 2006
  • All Astrotreff Objects of the Month since the year 2016
  • Astronomy Magazine's "101 Cosmic Objects You Must See"
  • Astronomy Magazine's "101 Weirdest Cosmic Objects"
  • Kohoutek nebulae
  • Reduzzi-Rampazzo Candidates for a Southern Extension of the Karachentsev Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies
  • Helwân nebulae (mostly galaxies)
  • Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies
  • Dorschner-Gürtler nebulae
  • Struve-Straka nebulae
  • Rojkovskij-Kurchakov nebulae
  • Neckel-Staude nebulae
  • Rodgers, Campbell, Whiteoak nebulae
  • The complete NGC
  • Perek planetary nebulae
  • Henize planetary nebulae
  • Parsamian-Petrosyan Catalog of Cometary Nebulae and Related Objects
  • Gyulbudaghian-Magakian nebulae
  • Binocular guides
  • The deep sky objects in the Night Sky Observer's Guide
  • The deep sky objects in the Pocket Sky Atlas
  • The objects in the Sky Atlas 2000.0 companion
  • WBL Galaxy Clusters
  • Lyon Galaxy Groups
  • White Poor Galaxy Clusters
  • Sérsic galaxies, pairs and clusters
  • Aguero Interesting Southern Galaxies
  • Southern Compact Groups
  • Shakhbazian Compact Groups of Compact Galaxies
  • Mailyan Dwarf Galaxies
  • Rampazzo-Sulentic Isolated Elliptical-Spiral Pairs of Galaxies
Gegenschein, the night of 9 October 2021 in Cornillac