Revealing the Universe - check this out.

[Jackalope]

I would just like to mention that for many of us brits there is one man that is larger than the sky, a national treasure Sir Patrick Moore

Indeed. Caldwell-Moore's work is well known to amateur astronomers. Notable amongst his work is the Caldwell catalogue of deep-sky objects.

While the Caldwell catalog consists of already-known objects culled primarily from the New General Catalogue, Moore compiled his catalog based on what was observable to amateurs using fairly modest instruments (and not already included in the Messier catalog). Once an observer has viewed all of the Messier objects (which can be done in one night), the Caldwell is a natural next milestone before taking on the Herschel 400.

This was important work - the NGC consists of nearly 8000 deep-sky objects (star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies), most of which are insanely difficult to impossible to observe with amateur instruments even from truly dark sky sites. From personal experience, I can tell you that even with a computer-aimed 250mm (diameter) telescope and a good star map under dark skies, hunting a piece of sky for NGC objects is an exercise in futility.

While astronomical catalogs list magnitude (brightness) for listed objects, deep-sky objects are extended, not point sources of light, and you can't compare the visual magnitude of an object vs. the limiting magnitude of your instrument and conditions to determine if an object will be visible. Caldwell's list consists of objects an amateur can likely see - if you can find them.

A collage of the objects of the Caldwell catalog:

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