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The Deep-Sky Corner was created between 1996 and 2001 as a leisure project by a group of amateur astronomers. Virtual time travel: 1999, 2001, 2002. After that, the Deep-Sky Corner remained dormant on astro!nfo until September 2020, when that website was discontinued. Now, it has risen again on its own domain and is continuously updated.

December 2021

  1. Ophiuchus with IC 4603, IC 4604, IC 4605
  2. Photo Scorpius by Edi and Hansjörg; Text additions: William Herschels discovery notes for NGC 891, NGC 7814, NGC 7789
  3. Photo NGC 2264 by Edi; Additions in text; discovery notes of William Herschel for NGC 925, NGC 4517
  4. Photo NGC 2359 by Edi
  5. NGC 6951
  6. Planetary Nebula Abell 80
  7. New galaxies in Leo Minor: NGC 2859, NGC 3294, NGC 3395/6, NGC 3486 — ReCAPTCHA for guestbook and contact form due to too much SPAM
  8. NGC 5981/2/5 with photo by Roland Stalder of Hubelmatt Observatory in Lucerne
  9. Layout change: Deep-Sky object list with nice photo tiles and overlay texts instead of buttons. Thanks to CSS grid dynamically adjusted to screen width. On entry page limited to three rows. Now only recreated 390 thumbnails with higher resolution.
  10. Planetary Nebulae Abell 84, Minkowski 2-51, Minkowski 2-55, Open Cluster NGC 7235
  11. Planetary Nebula Abell 82
  12. The internet of the 1990ies is back: We have a guestbook! Now only an animated «Under Construction» GIF is missing.
  13. Planetary Nebula Baade 1

November 2021

  1. Planetary nebula Haro 3-29
  2. Some tuning on style sheets, constellation overview, contact formt
  3. Planetary nebula Haro 3-75
  4. Planetary nebula Abell 13; corrected error in finder chart for NGC 7822.
  5. Planetary Nebula Abell 2
  6. Planetary nebulae Abell 8, IC 2149
  7. Galaxies NGC 20
  8. Planetary nebula Kohoutek 1-20
  9. Visual observations by Edi with 30" f/3.3 Slipstream Dobson: Barnard 33, Messier 42 , NGC 1097, NGC 1579
  10. NGC 973
  11. NGC 925
  12. NGC 5394/5
  13. Visual observations with Taurus T400 f/4.5 Dobsonian: Abell 4, Messier 76, NGC 1333, NGC 1491, NGC 1513, NGC 1579, NGC 1701, NGC 2359

October 2021

  1. Galaxy NGC 488 in Pisces
  2. Galaxies NGC 470/4 in Pisces
  3. Galaxies NGC 2841, NGC 3184 and NGC 3198 in Ursa Maior — cluster with nebula NGC 1624 in Perseus
  4. Photo by Edi: NGC 4216
  5. Upgrade of Fancybox 3.5.7 to Fancybox 4 for photo gallery. Galaxy NGC 4216 in Virgo
  6. Galaxies NGC 4395, NGC 5005 in Canes Venatici
  7. NGC 772 in Aries
  8. NGC 691 in Aries
  9. NGC 5907 in Draco, NGC 5752/4 in Bootes
  10. NGC 7479, NGC 7253A/B, NGC 7217
  11. NGC 7771, NGC 7752/3

September 2021

  1. NGC 7814
  2. Galactic nebula Kohoutek 2-1
  3. IC 10
  4. NGC 70
  5. New object: NGC 2403
  6. Texts for NGC 4244, NGC 4725, NGC 7640
  7. Photo by Edy for Messier 45
  8. Photo by Edy of IC 342, text for NGC 1023

August 2021

  1. galaxies IC 342, NGC 1023, NGC 4244, NGC 4725, NGC 7640
  2. NGC 672
  3. New object: Kr 2-1
  4. New object: Hickson 92
  5. Visual observations: NGC 7023, Pease 1
  6. New object: planetary nebula IC 1747
  7. New object: planetary nebula IC 289

July 2021

  1. New object: planetary nebula Abell 30
  2. New object: planetary nebula Abell 24
  3. New objects: vdB 31
  4. New object: V 1331 Cygni
  5. New object: NGC 7538
  6. New object: planetary nebula Simeis 22

June 2021

  1. New object: planetary nebula Ethos 1
  2. New object: NGC 6823
  3. New object: galactic nebula NGC 6813 in Vulpecula
  4. Photos in database, automatic generation of image previews, Contributors with photo galleries
  5. Photo and description of quasars around NGC 3628 (Leo Triplet) by Eduard von Bergen
  6. New objects: Sh 2-207
  7. New object: MWC 137
  8. New objects: open clusters NGC 1245, NGC 2266, NGC 2420, NGC 6819, NGC 7788/90
  9. Added text for IC 1318
  10. New object: open cluster IC 1311 in Cygnus
  11. New object: globular cluster (or not) Koposov 2

May 2021

  1. New object: globular cluster Palomar 2 in Auriga
  2. New object: globular cluster NGC 288 in Sculptor
  3. New object: NGC 2175 in Orion
  4. New objects: IC 5076, NGC 1985
  5. New object: IC 2120 in Auriga. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: IC 1396
  6. New object: IC 1470 in Cepheus
  7. New object: IC 1396 in Cepheus
  8. Upgrade Bootstrap from 4.6 to 5.0.1
  9. New objects: IC 417 in Auriga, IC 443 in Gemini
  10. New objects: NGC 1579 and IC 348 in Perseus
  11. New object: reflection nebula NGC 1333 in Perseus
  12. New objects: IC 59/63, globular cluster NGC 5466 in Bootes
  13. Photos by Bernhard Blank and Dragan Mihajlovic: IC 5146, Messier 31, NGC 2022, NGC 6781, NGC 6791, NGC 6894, NGC 6905, Roslund 4. New objects IC 1805, IC 1318
  14. Photos by Bernhard Blank and Dragan Mihajlovic: Abell 78, Abell 79, NGC 6960+, Messier 11, Messier 13, Messier 99, Messier 101, NGC 7635, markarian_chain, NGC 1514
  15. New DSC logo by Ewan Nies. Photos by Radek Chromik: NGC 869/884, NGC 2346, NGC 6826. New Objects: NGC 6742, NGC 7008, NGC 7026, NGC 7027, NGC 7076, NGC 7139, NGC 7354
  16. Text for Abell 71, Abell 72, Kohoutek 3-46, Minkowski 4-17, CRL 2688
  17. Text for Abell 4, Abell 39, Abell 78, Abell 79, IC 5117
  18. New object: QSO J014709+463037
  19. Photos of planetary nebulae by Radek Chromik with finder charts: Abell 71, Abell 72, Kohoutek 3-46, Minkowski 4-17, CRL 2688
  20. Photos of planetary nebulae by Radek Chromik with finder charts: Abell 4, Abell 39, Abell 78, Abell 79, IC 5117
  21. New object: Jones 1
  22. Planetary nebula JnEr 1
  23. New objects: NGC 7006, NGC 7048
  24. New objects: NGC 6842, NGC 6894

April 2021

  1. New object: NGC 6765. Picture for NGC 6702/3
  2. Photos by Radek Chromik of G 1
  3. New object: IC 410
  4. New object: NGC 1491
  5. New objects: NGC 2903
  6. Visual observations with 762 mm aperture by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 51, Messier 64, Messier 65, Messier 81, Messier 104, NGC 4038/9
  7. New object: NGC 1555 with Foto by Radek Chromik. Observation and photo for Messier 87 by Eduard von Bergen.
  8. New object: NGC 7380 with Foto by Radek Chromik
  9. New Object: NGC 7822 with photo by Radek Chromik
  10. New object: Sh 2-106 with photo by Radek Chromik
  11. New object: vdB 133 with photo by Radek Chromik
  12. New object: NGC 3310 with photo by Eduard von Bergen
  13. Photos by Radek Chromik: Roslund 4 — New object: NGC 2419
  14. Photos by Radek Chromik: Abell 12, Barnard 33, UGC 5470, Messier 15, Messier 33, Messier 35, Messier 37, Messier 56, Messier 63, Messier 81, Messier 88, Messier 94, Messier 98, Messier 101, 108, NGC 40, NGC 206, NGC 281, NGC 891, NGC 1501, NGC 4656/7, NGC 6791, NGC 7332/9, NGC 7662
  15. Photos by Radek Chromik: Messier 105, Messier 106
  16. Photos by Radek Chromik: Hickson 44, Hickson 57, IC 405, Messier 45, Messier 46, Messier 61, Messier 90, Messier 91, Messier 92, Messier 65, Messier 110, NGC 1977, NGC 2024, NGC 2237+, NGC 2264, NGC 3718, NGC 6946, NGC 6960+, NGC 7000, NGC 7023
  17. Photos by Radek Chromik: Messier 13, Messier 27, NGC 1+2, NGC 6888
  18. Photos by Radek Chromik: Abell 21, Messier 1, Messier 3, NGC 4631, NGC 6058, NGC 6781, NGC 6905, NGC 7331, NGC 7635

March 2021

  1. New object: IC 5146. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: IC 5146. Photos by Radek Chromik: Messier 42 , Messier 51, Messier 57, Messier 64, Messier 65, Messier 76, Messier 81, Messier 97, Messier 100, Messier 109, IC 5146, NGC 1514, NGC 2022, NGC 2261, NGC 2371/2, NGC 2392, NGC 4565, NGC 4567/8
  2. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: Sh 2-155
  3. New objects: IC 405, NGC 1499, Sh 2-155
  4. New objects: NGC 40; Photo by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 106
  5. Text and picture for: Messier 109
  6. Text and picture for: Messier 106, Messier 107
  7. Text and picture for: Messier 105
  8. Text for Messier 104
  9. Text and picture for: Messier 103
  10. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 100; Text for Messier 102
  11. Text and pictures for: Messier 101
  12. Text and pictures for: Messier 100
  13. Text and pictures for: Messier 99
  14. Text and pictures for: Messier 98
  15. Text and pictures for: Messier 95
  16. Text and pictures for: Messier 94
  17. Text and pictures for: Messier 93
  18. Text and picture for: Messier 91
  19. Text and picture for: Messier 89
  20. Text and pictures for: markarian_chain, Messier 85, Messier 87, Messier 88

February 2021

  1. Text and picture for: Messier 80
  2. Text and picture for: Messier 79
  3. Text and picture for: Messier 77
  4. Text and picture for: Messier 75, Messier 76
  5. Text and picture for: Messier 74
  6. Text and pictures for: Messier 69, Messier 70, Messier 71, Messier 72, Messier 73
  7. Text and pictures for: Messier 65, Messier 67, Messier 68
  8. Text and pictures for: Messier 58. Visual observation by Eduard von Bergen for UGC 5470
  9. Text and picture for: Messier 55, Messier 56
  10. Text and picture for: Messier 54
  11. Text and picture for: Messier 50, Messier 51, NGC 6822
  12. Text and picture for: Messier 48, Messier 49
  13. Text and picture for: Messier 42
  14. Text and picture for: Messier 47
  15. Text and picture for: Messier 41, Messier 45
  16. Text and picture for: Messier 36, Messier 37, Messier 39, Messier 40
  17. Text and picture for: Messier 35
  18. Photos by Eduard von Bergen: UGC 5470, NGC 869/884 — text and map for Messier 31 — text for Messier 34
  19. Picturs and text for Messier 30, NGC 891, NGC 869/884, NGC 3074, NGC 4565, NGC 5248
  20. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 8, Messier 20, Messier 42 , NGC 4631
  21. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: NGC 7023 — new finder charts for Collinder 399, Hickson 44, Messier 10, Messier 11, Messier 12, Messier 14, Messier 19, Messier 21, Messier 23, Messier 38, Messier 53, Messier 62, Messier 63, Messier 64, Messier 92, NGC 457, NGC 5248, NGC 6702/3, NGC 6834
  22. New finder charts for 3C 273, , Messier 16, Messier 17, Messier 18, Messier 20, Messier 81, NGC 891, NGC 1701, NGC 1931, NGC 2024, NGC 2359, NGC 6058, NGC 6309, NGC 6781, NGC 6791, NGC 6826, NGC 6888, NGC 6905, NGC 7293, NGC 7332/9, NGC 7662, NGC 7789, QSO 0957+561A/B, Roslund 4
  23. Photo by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 78
  24. New finder charts for Abell 12, Messier 26, Messier 29, Messier 30, Messier 33, Messier 34, Messier 35, Messier 36, Messier 37, Messier 46, NGC 404, NGC 2022, NGC 2346, NGC 2371/2, NGC 3242, NGC 2392, NGC 2440, NGC 7023

January 2021

  1. Added texts: vdB 141, Messier 26, Messier 29
  2. Photos by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 97, IC 2118, vdB 141, and texts
  3. Various layout changes for all constellations for better overview and display on smartphones. Catalogues with stars and NGC objects in the constellation can be expanded and collapsed.
  4. Overview object descriptions by constellations
  5. Text for Messier 83
  6. Photos by Eduard von Bergen: Messier 83, NGC 2261, Messier 57, Messier 81, markarian_chain — New finder charts Messier 8, Messier 9
  7. Corrected many errors on many pages. New finder charts and photos for NGC 6543, Hickson 61, Messier 1, Messier 2, Messier 3, Messier 4, Messier 5, Messier 6, Messier 7
  8. Text and pictures for Messier 24, Messier 22, Messier 25, Messier 28, Messier 59
  9. NGC 7635: Photo by Eduard von Bergen and new finder chart — text and picture for NGC 7000
  10. NGC 281: Foto by Eduard von Bergen, plus text; NGC 1097 Foto by Eduard von Bergen and Hansjörg Wälchli, plus text and finder chart
  11. Text and pictures for Messier 97, Messier 108, NGC 7009; added best observing times for all Constellations
  12. NGC 2237+
  13. Finder charts for Messier 97, Messier 109, NGC 281, NGC 7000; Finder charts and photo for NGC 7009; Photos for Messier 87, Messier 102; Limit of number of objects on entry page. More on object descriptions.
  14. New finder charts: G 1, Messier 98, Messier 99, Messier 100, Messier 102, Messier 103, Messier 105, Messier 106, Messier 107
  15. Links to CDS in object tables; Finder charts for Messier 88, Messier 89, Messier 89, Messier 91, Messier 93, Messier 94, Messier 97
  16. Chart for Messier 87
  17. More compact display of MySQL data of PGC catalogs for multiple galaxy display; finder charts for Messier 83, Messier 85
  18. Finder charts for Messier 67, Messier 68, Messier 69, Messier 70, Messier 72, Messier 73, Messier 74, Messier 75, Messier 76, Messier 77, Messier 79, Messier 80, markarian_chain
  19. Pictures for Messier 2 and Messier 3; texts for Messier 25; photo and maps for NGC 1501; HST photo for NGC 2392; finder chart for Messier 58, Messier 59 and Messier 60
  20. New finder chart for Messier 18
  21. HST photo and text additions for NGC 2261; photo and text for NGC 2264
  22. Text additions and photo for NGC 1931
  23. Cocktail glass for NGC 6905; Photo of a NGC 2371/2
  24. Photo, text and new finder chart for NGC 6804
  25. Smoothened Milky Way background and 3x smaller file size with 15 px Gaussian blur. New photos and text Messier 78
  26. Pictures and text for Messier 24; text for NGC 6826; text and photo for Messier 42
  27. New picture and finder chart for NGC 1514; new photo for NGC 6309; added text for NGC 6445
  28. HST picture for Messier 15; added finder chart Pease 1; constellation infos