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September's Deep Sky List

Cat.  # Type Const Mag Name Comments
*M2 GC Aqr 6.5
*M11 OC Sct 5.8 Wild Duck Cluster Rich, Spectacular!!
  M15 GC Peg 6.4
*M27 NEB Vul 8.0 Dumbbell Nebula Spectacular!!
  M29 OC Cyg 6.6
*M31 GAL And 3.4 Andromeda Galaxy Naked eye from dark skies!!
  M32 GAL And 8.2 Companion to M31
*M33 Gal Tri 5.7 Pinwheel Galaxy Very large spiral
  M34 OC Per 5.2
  M39 OC Cyg 4.6
  M56 GC Lyr 8.2
*M57 PN Lyr 9.0 Ring Nebula One of the finest Planetary. nebs.
  M71 GC Sge 8.3
  M72 GC Aqr 9.4
  M73 Ast Aqr
  M75 GC Sgr 8.6
  M110 GAL And 8.0 Companion to M31
*NGC457 OC Cass 6.4 Owl Cluster
*NGC869 OC Per 4.0 Double
*NGC884 OC Per 4.0 Cluster
  NGC891 GAL And 10.0 Edge-on, Large,low surface brightness
*NGC6826 PN Cyg 10.0 Blinking Nebula
*NGC6960 NEB Cyg Veil Supernova-Very Large
*NGC6992 Neb Cyg Nebula Remnant-Very Large
  NGC7000 NEB Cyg North American Nebula Very Large
  NGC7009 PN Aqr 8.0 Saturn Nebula
  NGC7293 PN Aqr Helix Nebula Large-Low surface brightness
  NGC7662 PN And 9.0 Blue Snowball

*= extraordinary ; OC = open cluster ; GC = globular cluster ;
NEB = nebula ; PN =  planetary nebula ; GAL = galaxy
 

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