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I'm an astronomer working for the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. I'm originally from Studham, Bedfordshire, UK.

I intend to initiate a project to maintain descriptions of every astronomical object in the universe on Wikipedia that would be useful for lay people, amateur, and professional astronomers.

[edit] Stubs to expand

Studham - use notes from the History of Studham book, one of the first female vicars, last V2 bomb, Eastenders episode.

Royal Observatory Edinburgh - use notes from Crawford collection history

[edit] Other contributions

Update List of planetary nebulae and individual articles with data from http://www.blackskies.org/SEC_data00.htm including citations. This generally gives more believable magnitudes than SIMBAD - mention in discussion? Put data from List of planetary nebulae into individual articles. Also, discuss in articles, discover and date.

Add NGC 40 to List of planetary nebulae and other Caldwell objects and information from the book.

Fill out details for Footprint Nebula (Min 1-92). Find good photos. link, interesting paper saying it's a young pn not proto.

Stingray Nebula - improve - give a box etc., also add Skull Nebula to the list.

Useful PN links: discoveries (Hxxx-N - where N is the catalogue I think -> are the catalogues. of discoveries.

Details on all local stars with debris dust discs from the database here: http://www.roe.ac.uk/ukatc/research/topics/dust/identification.html. In info boxes of local stars.

Put a photo onto the UKIRT page.

Category:Wikipedia featured desktop backgrounds - add in some astro stuff

Create a List of sky surveys - with limiting magnitudes, colours, sky coverage, telescope/instrument, all-sky surveys, plate/digital. Include UKIDSS (WSA), SSS (SSA), VISTA (VSA).

[edit] Done?

List of planetary nebulae - incorporate magnitudes, tidy up, once tables can be sortable make sortable. (See this: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001)