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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 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.

Near Future

  • All Astrotreff Objects of the Month for the year 2020 - publication June 2025
  • Astronomy Magazine's "101 Cosmic Objects You Must See" - publication July 2025
  • Astronomy Magazine's "101 Weirdest Cosmic Objects" - publication July 2025
  • Herschel Double Stars
  • Reflection nebulae catalogs - large project, publication early 2026
    • Struve-Straka nebulae
    • Dorschner-Gürtler nebulae
    • Van den Bergh Reflection Nebulae
    • Rojkovskij-Kurchakov nebulae
    • Bernes Bright Nebulae
    • Neckel-Staude nebulae

In Betweens

On the Horizon

  • Kohoutek nebulae - publication mid-2026 ?
  • Rodgers, Campbell, Whiteoak nebulae - publication end 2026 ?
  • Haro planetary nebulae
  • Perek planetary nebulae
  • More binocular editions
  • Reduzzi-Rampazzo Candidates for a Southern Extension of the Karachentsev Catalogue of Isolated Pairs of Galaxies
  • Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies
  • The complete NGC

Definite Maybe's

  • Gyulbudaghian-Magakian nebulae
  • Parsamian-Petrosyan Catalog of Cometary Nebulae and Related Objects
  • Rampazzo-Sulentic Isolated Elliptical-Spiral Pairs of Galaxies
  • Helwân nebulae (mostly galaxies)
  • Henize planetary nebulae
  • 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
Gegenschein, the night of 9 October 2021 in Cornillac