SkyViewNGC is a development from SkyViewAzEl. It seeks to provide planning Seestar S50 observations taking into account the FOV and resolution of the Seestar S50. The existing list searched by SkyViewAzEl is basically the Messier and Caldwell catalogues with a number of additions from the NGC catalogue. While this was found extremely useful, it contained objects which were not suitable for the Seestar S50 FOV. In addition there are a significant number of suitable NGC objects not contained in the Messier or Caldwell catalogues. To this end the list of objects will be compiled from the NGC catalogue curated by eliminating objects with a major dimension less than 5 arcmin. If there are Messier or Caldwell objects which are not in the NGC catalogue and have a major dimension more than 5 arcmin they will be added.
Next - some means to collect the relevant data from the NGC catalogue needs to be found. Initially, methods of accessing data in SIMBAD will be investigated.
