Hello,

This message is just to announce that three new catalog are available on
the external catalog download page
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/external.html

Two of them concerne the galaxies and galaxies clusters, many thank's to
Martin Schoenball to provide this data in a useable form :

Abell Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974) VII/4A (31 Kb)
Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) (Nilson 1973) VII/26D (155 Kb)

The third one is about infra-red stellar emission, I think you are not
equipped for observation at 12 microns :o) but this help to identify very
red stars that are also often variables stars :

Catalog of Positions of IR Stellar Sources (CPIRSS) (Hindsley+ 1994) I/270
(826 Kb)

I want also to take your attention to this great page where you can find
additional or replacement data for Cartes du Ciel, there is only a small
link from my download page and you may have missed it:
http://home.talkcity.com/ComputerCt/astrogeek/catalog.htm
This is where you can find the 1 million galaxies PGC catalog, a very
interesting extract of the USNO-A2.0 down to magnitude 12, updated version
for the GCVS and WDS and many other. Many thank's to Jeff Burton for is
work on this data.

Best Regards,

Patrick Chevalley