English Publications

I. Books

My book "Galaxies and How to Observe Them" (Springer, London-New York) is on the market since Dec. 15, 2006. It covers all aspects about visual observing of galaxies, featuring astrophysics, instruments, observing techniques, objects, and much more.

Download an index of all objects (xls).
The extended, English version of my comprehensive study on the history of the NGC  - titled "Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters - from Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalogue" - has been published by Cambridge University Press in August 2010.

Look here for an abstract of the book.

Look here for a list of known errors and corrections (xls-file).

Published reviews: Michael Hoskin (pdf), Malcolm Thomson (pdf), Owen Brazell, Lee Macdonald, Hilmar Duerbeck (pdf), misterdeepsky, Sky at Night, Jaakko Saloranta, Barbara Becker (Annals of Science, 2011), Ted Forte (pdf), Woodruff T. Sullivan III (pdf), Hilmar Duerbeck (SuW 11/2011) (pdf)

II. Books (co-work)

My "Revised NGC/IC" is used in the NGC-IC Photographic Catalogue by Numazawa and Wakyia. The large-format, 720-page book shows DSS-images of all NGC/IC objects!
For Michael Hoskin's latest book, The Construction of the Heavens: William Herschel's Cosmology (Cambridge University Press, January 2012), I have written comments about the involved deep sky objects. 

III. Articles (since 1996)
Publication Magazine/Location Year
1 Catalogue of Bright Quasars and BL Lacertae Objects Internet 1998
2 Galaxies in Leo Minor - "The Amateur Deep Field" Mitteil. d. SFB, May-Aug 1998
3 Catalogue of Galaxy Groups Internet 1999
4 Observing list of Bright Quasars Internet 1999
5 Quasars, Active and Compact Galaxies Internet 1999
6 Extragalactic Objects Discovered as Variable Stars Internet 2000
7 Anonymous Galaxies in the NGC 999-Group Magellan 2, issue 1, p. 10 2000
8 Digital Deep-Sky Data, visual Observing and the NGC/IC Project VdS-Journal 1/2000, p. 49 2000
9 On True and False Double Quasars Internet 2000
10 "Superthin Galaxies" - Objects, Sharp as a Razor Blade VdS-Journal 2/2000, p. 71 2000
11 In Quest of "Deep-Sky Comets" [pdf] Internet 2001
12 Cygnus A - Observing an Exceptional Radio Galaxy interstellarum 18 2001
13 Deep Sky Catalogues, the New Uranometria and Other Stories [pdf] Internet 2002
14 Extragalactic Objects Discovered as Variable Stars Webb Deep Sky Society Publication 2002
15 NGC 6822 (Barnard's Galaxy) interstellarum 41, S. 22 2005
16 Object of the Season: NGC 7027 Deep Sky Observer 138, p. 17
2005
17 Object of the Season: NGC 6888 Deep Sky Observer 140, 9 2006
18 Object of the Season: NGC 891 Deep Sky Observer 141, 17-21 2006
19 Review: F. Watson, Stargazer - The Life and Times of the Telescope Deep Sky Observer 142, 27-28 2006

20

 M 81 and M 82 - A Nightmare for the Herschel Family [pdf] Internet 2006
21 T. Neckel, H. Vehrenberg: Atlas of Galactic Nebulae (DVD) [pdf] Deep Sky Observer 147, 23-24 2008
22 NGC 4361. History, Data and Observational Results Deep Sky Observer 150, 4-6 2009
23 NGC 7000. History, Data and Observational Results Deep Sky Observer 151, 7-9 2010
24 John Lous Emil Dreyer - A Short Biography [pdf] Internet 2010
25 NGC 7332/39. History, Data and Observational Results Deep Sky Observer 152, 11-12 2010
26 NGC 5053 Deep Sky Observer 153, 5-6 2010
27 Will the "real" NGC 4241 please stand up? [pdf] Amateur Astronomy 67, 15-16 2010
28 Carbon star V Aql [pdf] Deep Sky Observer 154, 11-12 2011
29 Planetary Nebula NGC 246, Cetus Deep Sky Observer 155, 7-11 2011
30 NGC 2362 in Canis Major Deep Sky Observer 156, 13 2012
31 'The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel' at 100 [pdf] Astronomy& Geophysics, 53, 2.13 2012
32 The M51 Mystery - Lord Rosse, Robinson and South and the Discovery of Spiral Structure in 1845 [pdf] Journ. Astron. History Heritage, 15, 19-29 2012
33 Review; J. Cavin, The Amateur Astronomer's Guide to Deep-Sky Catalogs [pdf] The Observatory 132, 199-200 2012
34 NGC 4485/90 in Canes Venatici Deep Sky Observer 157, 15-17 2012
35 NGC 6765 in Lyra Deep Sky Observer 158, 4-6 2012
36 NGC 7789 in Cassiopeia Deep Sky Observer 159, 13-16 2012
37 NGC 281 in Cassiopeia Deep Sky Observer 160, 12-14 2013