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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 stayed asleep on astro!nfo until September 2020, when that website was discontinued. Now it has risen again on its own domain and is continuously updated.

09-19Correction: M 24 is not a star cloud, but a gap in the dust lane of the Milky Way. Observing reports: Barnard 92/93, Hubble 5, NGC 6302, NGC 6334
09-18Observing reports: IC 418, NGC 1535, NGC 1999, NGC 7009; Photos by Jörg Studer: CTB 1, Sh 2-170, NGC 6543
09-08Added text to NGC 7354. New photo of NGC 6717
09-06New: Galaxy NGC 1964
09-04New: Galaxy NGC 1961 (Arp 184)
09-02New: Galaxy NGC 936
09-01New: Galaxy NGC 908
08-31New: Galactic nebulae NGC 1788, NGC 1999. Bugfix: in PHP mktime(). Needs a fifth argument for the day or the returned month name is wrong on the last day of the month.
08-30New: Galaxy NGC 613
08-29Adding interesting objects from the «Herschel 400 Catalogue»: Galaxies NGC 157, NGC 247, NGC 278
08-27New: NGC 7292, Sh 2-170. Added text to NGC 7822 (Cederblad 214). Observation reports from Edi: Abell 39, NGC 6210, NGC 6229, Sharpless 2-71
08-26Photo of CTB 1 and Sh 2-170 by Jörg Studer.
08-20Observing nights on Hasliberg and Starparty Gurnigel: Abell 39, Abell 70, Hubble 5, IC 4593, Minkowski 1-59, NGC 1499, NGC 6210, NGC 6229 (with photo by Radek), NGC 6741, NGC 6751, NGC 6781, NGC 6822, Quasar J014709+463037, Sharpless 2-71, h+χ Persei
08-07New: Planetary Nebula Abell 36
08-04New: Planetary Nebulae NGC 6741 and NGC 6852. Bugfix in catalog browser. Constellation affiliation calculated with epoch J2000.0 but Galactic Planetary Nebulae catalogue (Acker et al., 1992) is originally in B1950.0. Some PN were in wrong constellation.
08-03New: Planetary Nebula IC 2003
08-01New: Planetary Nebula Sh 2-71. Additions to NGC 6822
07-27New: Planetary Nebula Hubble 5
07-25New: Planetary Nebula Hubble 12
07-23New: Planetary Nebula Vyssotsky 2-2
06-27New: Planetary Nebula NGC 6778
06-25New: Planetary Nebula Minkowski 1-59
06-18Milky bright midsummer observation night on Glaubenberg. The Milky Way and fainter constellations were barely visible. Weren't the summer nights much darker in the past? After clearing up around 2 am, the sky cleared briefly. New visual object descriptions, the easy-peasy ones: Picot 1, M 5, M 11, M 12, M 13, M 14, M 27, M 92
06-04Photo Sh 2-129 by Jörg Studer. Thank you!
05-30Correction: NGC 4567/8 show traces of interaction and are not just superimposed.
05-18Addition: Discovery history of Hickson 61
05-15Photos by Manuel Jung: NGC 6946, NGC 6960, NGC 7000, NGC 7293, IC 1318, IC 1396, IC 2177, Simeis 188, Barnard 33, Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Crux, Orion, Sagittarius ... Thank you!
05-14Photos by Manuel Jung: M 33, M 42, M 45, M 51, M 71, M 78, M 81, M 83, M 92, M 101, NGC 253, NGC 1499, NGC 2237, NGC 3718, NGC 4565, NGC 6334, Monoceros Highlights ... Thank you!
05-13Photos by Manuel Jung: M 1, M 3, M 4, M 5, M 8, M 10, M 13, M 14, M 15, M 16, M 17, M 20, M 22, M 24, M 31, Scutum Star Cloud ... Thank you very much!
05-05New: Psychedelic Nebula (Simeis 188) + Minkowski 1-41
05-03New: Galactic Nebulae Sh 2-89 and Sh 2-90
05-01New: Angel Nebula (NGC 2170)
04-07New: Globular Cluster NGC 6717
04-05New: Globular Cluster NGC 6624
04-02Bugfix: Show/hide Telrad using jQuery on entry page when number of tiles exceed 3 rows. Text additions for NGC 2419
03-30New: Blazar Markarian 421
03-25Added limiting magnitudes of finder charts. Description for M 20 by Edi
03-21Added «Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae» on constellation pages.
03-10Added historical constellation maps from Johann Bayer's «Uranometria» (1603) and Johannes Hevelius «Prodromus Astronomiae» (1690).
02-22Handy Feature: Objects of the current month
02-19Observation reports from Eduard von Bergen with 30" SlipStream Dobson: Tau Canis Majoris Cluster (NGC 2362), Pair of Galaxies NGC 3395/6 (Arp 270), Pair of Galaxies NGC 3226/7 (Arp 94), Galaxy NGC 2782 (Arp 215), Hubbles Variable Nebula (NGC 2261), Seagull Nebula (IC 2177) ... Thank you!
02-17New: Supernova Remnant CTB 1 (Abell 85)
02-16New: Planetary Nebulae Abell 19, Abell 57, Abell 61, Abell 68
02-15New: Planetary Nebulae Abell 5, Kohoutek 1-7 (Abell 10), Abell 65, Abell 74
02-13vdB 141: Text supplements
02-12LDN 1235: Text supplements and photo by Peter Kocher
02-11New: Galactic Nebula NGC 2467, photos by Jörg Studer: Seahorse Nebula LDN 1082, Shark Nebula LDN 1235
02-09New: Planetary Nebulae IC 972 and NGC 7094
02-08New: Globular Cluster NGC 6366
02-05New: Planetary Nebula NGC 2610, Globular Cluster NGC 5694
02-04New: Globular Cluster NGC 4147, Planetary Nebula IC 4593, Globular Cluster NGC 6229
01-28New: Globular Cluster NGC 6934 and Planetary Nebula NGC 6891 in constellation Delphinus
01-27New: 37 Cluster (NGC 2169)
01-21New: Bear Paw Galaxy (NGC 2537, Arp 6) & IC 2233 and Galaxy NGC 1569 (Arp 210)
01-19New: Galaxies NGC 2857 (Arp 1) & NGC 2854/6 (Arp 285)
01-18New: Tau Canis Majoris Cluster (NGC 2362)
01-16100th Planetary nebula in DSC: NGC 6537 (Red Spider Nebula)
01-08Additions at the Pleiades: Discovery history and development of the Subaru logo. New: Kemble's Cascade + Cluster NGC 1502