The vast majority of these needles-in-the-celestial-haystack are either very small or very faint or both. Like observing quasars, the satisfaction of the observing is not in the spectacle of the object observed - it is the knowledge of seeing something beyond some arbitrary boundary; in this case the Herschel catalogues.
Why do we (whoever "we" are) follow these ethereal wisps, these Everests-of-the-sky? Well, to paraphrase Sir Edmund Hilary: "Because they might be there!" - Steve Mencinsky
The articles are all re-printed from the ASNSW's monthly Journal UNIVERSE, and can be found in the issue listed beside each title below.
| The Inaugural BNGC | July 1992 |
| Contemplating The Galactic Navel | September 1992 |
| Backpacking in the SMC | October 1992 |
| For A Fistful Of Globulars | November 1992 |
| Snow White And Only One Dwarf | January 1993 |
| The Jewel On The Cloud | February 1993 |
| An Ancient Supernova Remnant | March 1993 |
| The Grandest Supernova Of Them All | April 1993 |
| A Very Personal Edition | May 1993 |
| A Beautiful, Large Planetary Nebula | July 1993 |
| Towards Trantor | August 1993 |
| For A Few Globulars More | September 1993 |
| The A-B-C Of Galaxies | October 1993 |
| I Can Feel A Fornax Coming On | November 1993 |
| Mati Morel Maps Magellanic Marvels | January 1994 |
| Rich & Poor, Black & White, North & South, Hot & Cold | May 1994 |
| Return Of the Centaur | June 1994 |
| A Crowded Tour Of Ara | September 1994 |
| A Toadstool And A Mystery | November 1994 |
| Eclipsed By the Shadow Of The Mighty | May 1995 |
| Centaurus - Near And Far | August 1998 |