Deep Sky Objects from the Ephem Program Database

The Ephem program (in its version 4.28 for OS/2) calculates ephemeris, rising and setting times for both objects of the Solar System and objects beyond, i.e. stars and Deep Sky Objects. Actually, it is possible to provide all data by oneself (i.e., orbital elements for solar system objects, and positions given by Right Ascension and Declination for stars and DSOs). For the convenience of the user, the program provides a database containing elements for the main and some other interesting bodies in the Solar System, several bright stars, all 110 Messier objects, plus 27 other deep sky objects which are in the NGC but not in Messier's catalog.

Here we present the data as given in the Ephem database for these 27 NGC objects. Besides the NGC number, the Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) for 2000.0 as well as an approximate magnitude are given.

The present author has linked the objects to pages in the Messier Database as far as there are pages for them.

NGC      RA        Dec     mag

NGC 104   0:24: 8  -72: 5  5
NGC 225   0:43:32  +61:48  6.5
NGC 362   1: 2:25  -70:50  6
NGC 457   1:19:10  +58:19  6.5
NGC 663   1:45:57  +61:15  6.5
NGC 869   2:20:45  +57: 9  5.2
NGC2070   5:38:44  -69: 7  5.7
NGC2244   6:32:40  + 4:52  5.7
NGC2440   7:41:50  -18:12  7
NGC2506   7:59:54  -10:35  7.5
NGC2808   9:11:59  -64:51  7
NGC3242  10:24:43  -18:38  7
NGC3532  11: 6:26  -58:40  7
NGC3766  11:36:14  -61:37  6.5
NGC4565  12:36:24  +25:59  7
NGC5322  13:49:35  +60:10  6
NGC6025  16: 3:41  -60:29  6
NGC6067  16:13:21  -54:13  7
NGC6210  16:44:28  +25:28  7
NGC6543  17:58:35  +66:38  6.5
NGC6572  18:12:38  + 6:51  8
NGC6752  19:10:50  -59:59  7
NGC7009  21: 4: 8  -11:22  7
NGC7243  22:15: 5  +49:53  6.5
NGC7662  23:25:49  +42:29  7
NGC7772  23:51:33  +16:16  5
NGC7789  23:57: 2  +56:43  8

You can download Ephem 4.28 for OS/2 from SEDS

Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

Last Modification: 8 Feb 1998, 20:00 MET