Intro
Foreword
On Mount Wilson with the Bruce
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: Nebulae: An Overview
1 Introduction
2 Diffuse Nebulae
2.1 Emission and Reflection Nebulae
2.2 Dark Nebulae
3 Planetary Nebulae
4 Supernova Remnants
References
Chapter 3: Astronomical Catalogs: An Overview
1 Introduction
2 Star Names and Star Catalogues
2.1 Bonner Durchmusterung (B.D. or BD)
2.2 Cordoba Durchmusterung (CD)
2.3 Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (CPD)

2.4 Modern Stellar Catalogs
2.5 Star Names Today
3 General Non-stellar Catalogs
3.1 Messier Objects
3.2 New General Catalogue (NGC) and Index Catalogues (IC)
4 The National Geographic Palomar Sky Survey (POSS, POSS I)
Southern Sky Survey
ESO Surveys
5 Galaxy Catalogs
5.1 Shapley-Ames Catalog (SA)
5.2 LEDA
Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC)
5.3 UGC-Uppsala General Catalog of Galaxies
5.4 Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG)
5.5 Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies (MCG)
VV Galaxies

5.6 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (Arp Galaxies)
5.7 Abell Catalogue
6 Star Cluster Catalogs
6.1 A Catalogue of Star Clusters Shown on Franklin-Adams Chart Plates -Melotte Catalogue (Mel)
6.2 Collinder Catalogue (Cr)
6.3 Lund Catalogue of Open Cluster Data (Lund)
6.4 Globular-Cluster Catalog (Arp) and Others
7 Planetary Nebulae Catalogs
7.1 Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (PK)
7.2 Catalog of Planetary Nebulae (Abell)
7.3 PLNEBULAE - Galactic Planetary Nebulae Catalog (PN or PNG)
8 Emission, Dark, and Reflection Nebulae Catalogs

8.1 Catalog of Bright Diffuse Galactic Nebulae (Ced)
8.2 Minkowski Emission Nebulae (Mi or M1)
8.3 Sharpless Catalogue of HII Regions (SH2 or Sh2)
8.4 Gum Nebulae
RCW Catalog
8.5 Van den Berg Catalog of Reflection Nebulae (vdB)
8.6 Atlas of Galactic Nebulae (GN)
9 Conclusions
References and General Bibliography
Chapter 4: Barnard and His Photography
1 Barnard the Photographer
2 Visual Observing Versus Photography
3 Astrophotography - Plates, Prints, Darkroom Techniques, Emulsions
4 Barnard's Astrophotography - Comets and the Milky Way

5 Barnard and Dark Nebulae
6 Barnard's Star
7 Honors and Awards
8 Astronomical Glass Plate Collections
References and General Bibliography
Chapter 5: Visual Observation of the Barnard Objects
1 Introduction
1.1 Sky Darkness and the Contrast Illusion
1.2 Opacity
1.3 Observing Barnard Objects
2 Barnard's Observations of Dark Nebulae
2.1 The Great Rift of the Milky Way
3 Other Observations of Dark Nebulae
4 Astronomical League Dark Nebula Observing Program
4.1 Naked Eye Objects
4.2 Binocular and Telescopic Objects