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He's recently relaunched the website and now there's Webb Deep-Sky Society member Victor van Wulfen produces He delighted me by sending a fully fledged article on his Bedford Catalogue project containing some of the history of the original and how he approached this mammoth work. I asked Rob for a brief introduction to the project as it's hard to get people to write very much. We highly recommend you take the time of examine it and hopefully observe some of the objects it contains. It also provides an updated guide for the bulk of the deep sky objects in Reverend Thomas Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes which were heavily based on the Bedford Catalogue. It is complete with modern designations and positions right alongside Smyth's original data and comments for his 850 entries. Now his work is complete he has kindly offered to provide his updated version of The Bedford Catalogue in PDF format for anyone to download from our website. Rob Peeling has undertaken to modernise Captain William Henry Smyth's 1844 The Bedford Catalogue for use by modern amateurs.
Rediscovering the Bedford Catalogue for the 21st Century
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