Gum catalog

The Gum catalog is an astronomical catalog of 84 emission nebulae in the southern sky. It was made by the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960) at Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae which presented a catalog of 84 nebulae or nebular complexes. Similar catalogs include the Sharpless catalog and the RCW catalog, and many of the Gum objects are repeated in these other catalogs. However, the RCW and Gum catalogs were mainly of the southern hemisphere (Mount Stromlo is in the southern hemisphere)

The Gum Nebula is named for Gum, who discovered it as Gum 12; it is an emission nebula that can be found in the southern constellations Vela and Puppis.

Examples

List

Gum 1

Gum 2

Gum 3

Gum 4

Gum 5

Gum 6

Gum 7

Gum 8

Gum 9

Gum 10

Gum 12

Gum 13

Gum 14

Gum 15

Gum 16

Gum 17

Gum 18

Gum 19

Gum 20

Gum 21

Gum 22

Gum 23

Gum 24

Gum 25

Gum 26

Gum 27

Gum 28

Gum 29

Gum 30

Gum 31

Gum 32

Gum 33

Gum 34

Gum 35

Gum 36

Gum 37

Gum 38

Gum 39

Gum 40

Gum 41

Gum 42

Gum 43

Gum 44

Gum 45

Gum 46

Gum 47

Gum 48

Gum 49

Gum 50

Gum 51

Gum 52

Gum 53

Gum 54

Gum 55

Gum 56

Gum 57

Gum 58

Gum 59

Gum 60

Gum 61

Gum 62

Gum 63

Gum 64

Gum 65

Gum 66

Gum 67

Gum 68

Gum 69

Gum 70a, Gum 70b, HD 100546 Nebulae

Gum 71

Gum 72

Gum 73

Gum 74

Gum 75

Gum 76

Gum 77

Gum 78

Gum 79

Gum 80

Gum 81

Gum 82

Gum 83

Gum 84

Gum 85

See also

RCW Catalogue

References

Sources

Gum Nebula

SouthernSkyPhoto.com

Anglo-Australian Observatory

Physics Today, 2001

The Cloud Hunters

Illustrated Gum Catalog

External links

Illustrated and annotated commentary of Gum objects

Astronomical catalogues of nebulae

H II regions

1955 documents

1955 in science