Survey type astronomical catalog | Published 1960 | |
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Target emission nebula, star-forming regions | ||
The RCW Catalogue (Rodgers, Campbell, Whiteoak) is an astronomical catalog of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way, described in (Rodgers et al. 1960). It has 182 objects and includes many of the earlier Gum catalog (84 items) objects, and the later Caldwell catalogue included some RCW. There is also some overlap with the Sharpless catalog-2 (312 items), although it primarily covered the northern hemisphere, whereas the RCW and Gum primarily covered the southern.
The Catalogue was compiled by Alexander William Rodgers, Colin T. Campbell and John Bartlett Whiteoak, who led by Bart Bok, catalogued southern nebulae while working at the Mount Stromlo Observatory in Australia in the 1960s.
Examples
Some of RCW catalog items; click on image for image credit, most of which are either various amateur astronomers, the ESO, ESA, or NASA