Barnard plates/catalog on-line

We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit. This includes scans of the photgraphs,
charts, and catalog of dark nebulae (an ever-popular query hereabouts).
It's searchable on sky area, coordinates, or Barnard number.
Start at www.library.gatech.edu/barnard.

And in other news on astronomers associated witH Nashville - I lately
read that Carl Seyfert played a bit role in the Mantell UFO case
around 1950...

Bill Keel

Excellent,
Thanks for posting this, I've been looking for references to identify more
of the dark nebula in my Ha Milky Way mosaic
http://astroshed.com/milkymap.html

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Regards,

Eddie Trimarchi
~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.astroshed.com
http://www.fitsplug.com

"William C. Keel" wrote in message
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We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit. This includes scans of the photgraphs,
charts, and catalog of dark nebulae (an ever-popular query hereabouts).
It's searchable on sky area, coordinates, or Barnard number.
Start at www.library.gatech.edu/barnard.

And in other news on astronomers associated witH Nashville - I lately
read that Carl Seyfert played a bit role in the Mantell UFO case
around 1950...

Bill Keel

William C. Keel wrote:
We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit. This includes scans of the photgraphs,
charts, and catalog of dark nebulae (an ever-popular query hereabouts).
It's searchable on sky area, coordinates, or Barnard number.
Start at www.library.gatech.edu/barnard.

I haven't been able to find an object I've once seen--maybe someone knows
what it is. It is a "Dark Ring"--similar in shape (but larger) to the
Ring Nebula (M57)--a dark donut in a field near M8 somewhere. I mean
"near" only in a general sense, though; it could be anywhere within about
10 degrees of M8. Any ideas as to what that might be?

Brian Tung
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On 4 Nov 2004 11:57:19 -0500, "William C. Keel"
wrote:

We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit. This includes scans of the photgraphs,
charts, and catalog of dark nebulae (an ever-popular query hereabouts).
It's searchable on sky area, coordinates, or Barnard number.
Start at www.library.gatech.edu/barnard.

And in other news on astronomers associated witH Nashville - I lately
read that Carl Seyfert played a bit role in the Mantell UFO case
around 1950...

Bill Keel

You can key in ranges for the plates, but you won't get
any results unless you know beforehand what the coverage
and area is that those plates cover.

You can browse by pre-defined regions. There is several that include
Sagittarius.

--

Regards,

Eddie Trimarchi
~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.astroshed.com
http://www.fitsplug.com

"RichA" wrote in message
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On 4 Nov 2004 11:57:19 -0500, "William C. Keel"
wrote:

We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit. This includes scans of the photgraphs,
charts, and catalog of dark nebulae (an ever-popular query hereabouts).
It's searchable on sky area, coordinates, or Barnard number.
Start at www.library.gatech.edu/barnard.

And in other news on astronomers associated witH Nashville - I lately
read that Carl Seyfert played a bit role in the Mantell UFO case
around 1950...

Bill Keel

You can key in ranges for the plates, but you won't get
any results unless you know beforehand what the coverage
and area is that those plates cover.

(Brian Tung) wrote in message ...
I haven't been able to find . . . a "Dark Ring"--similar in shape (but
larger) to the Ring Nebula (M57)--a dark donut in a field near M8
. . . Any ideas as to what that might be?

Don't know, but maybe these are some useful leads:

See reference to Barnard's 1908 report at A.N. 177:231 concerning dark
globs in the vicinity of M8. Three are in the range of M57's size,
e.g. 40" to 60" -
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/np...pJ...105..255B

Text to Plate 29, containing M8, references Barnard's 1908 article in
A.N. 177:231 -
http://video.library.gatech.edu/Barn.../text/Bar-pt1-[090]_sm.jpg

The scanned copy of A.N. 177:231 (1908) is not available via NASA/ADS.

Barnard, E.E. Some notes on nebulae and nebulosities. Astronomische
Nachrichten, vol. 177:231 (1908)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/np...N....177..231B

Also note - B272 on Plate 20, which is quite a bit larger than M57, is
drawn with a donut hole in it.
http://video.library.gatech.edu/Barn...atechart20.jpg

- Canopus

We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit.

Hi:

And that is wonderful! Thanks for the heads-up!

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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Rod Mollise wrote:
We were just notified (by postcard!) that the Georgia Tech library
is hosting Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the
Milky Way" as a web exhibit.

Hi:

And that is wonderful! Thanks for the heads-up!

Well, it certainly seems like 300 MB on my home disk well used.
I've noticed that some web exhibits do vanish or migrate, and
didn't want to lose those excellent scans.

Bill Keel