Sharpless catalog
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sharpless-catalog-187-9547524
title:
Sharpless catalog
text:
The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 H II regions intended to be comprehensive north of declination −27°. The first edition was published in 1953 with 142 objects (Sh1), and the second and final version was published by US astronomer Stewart Sharpless in 1959 with 312 objects. Sharpless also includes some planetary nebulae and supernova remnants, in addition to H II regions. In 1953 Stewart Sharpless joined the staff of the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station, where he surveyed a
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original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpless_catalog
date created:
2007-06-30T03:25:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:45:52Z
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13
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15