Star Vistas

A second catalogue, the Caldwell catalogue, is a much more recent listing, and contains many objects that the author thought worthy of observation (or imaging) which were not contained in the Messier catalogue.  In fact the author of the Caldwell catalogue is none other than our own Patrick Moore, whose full name is Patrick Caldwell-Moore, but he dropped the “Moore” to avoid a conflict with the “Messier” or M objects.

The most northerly objects in the Caldwell catalogue have the smallest Caldwell numbers, so Caldwell 1, the open star cluster NGC188 lies at a declination of over 85 degrees, only 4 degrees from Polaris.

Sir Patrick Moore is also author of one of the three Forewords in Star Vistas!