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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.

After publication of CSOG 3.0 on 29 November 2024 there will not be another complete revision: from here on, new editions will be added incrementally and existing content will receive interim updates. Creation of new and updated editions is a work in progress.

Order of appearance may change:

  • All the Webb Deep-Sky Society's Objects of the Month for the year 2020 - publication April 2025
  • All Astrotreff Objects of the Month for the year 2020 - publication May / June 2025
  • The double stars in Burnham's Celestial Handbook - publication summer 2025
  • An updated Struve Double Stars edition - publication summer 2025
  • Reflection nebulae catalogs - large project, publication early 2026:
    • Struve-Straka nebulae
    • Dorschner-Gürtler nebulae
    • Van den Bergh nebulae
    • Rojkovskij-Kurchakov nebulae
    • Bernes nebulae
    • Neckel-Staude nebulae
  • All Deep Sky Forum's Objects of the Week for the years 2012-2019
  • All the Webb Deep-Sky Society's Objects of the Month for the years 2006-2019
  • All Astrotreff Objects of the Month for the years 2016-2019
  • Astronomy Magazine's "101 Cosmic Objects You Must See"
  • Astronomy Magazine's "101 Weirdest Cosmic Objects"
  • Kohoutek nebulae - publication mid-2026 ?
  • Rodgers, Campbell, Whiteoak nebulae - publication end 2026 ?
  • Perek planetary nebulae
  • Gyulbudaghian-Magakian nebulae
  • Parsamian-Petrosyan Catalog of Cometary Nebulae and Related Objects
  • Reduzzi-Rampazzo Candidates for a Southern Extension of the Karachentsev Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies
  • Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies
  • Helwân nebulae (mostly galaxies)
  • Henize planetary nebulae
  • The complete NGC
  • More 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