Outlines for Deep-sky objects

Hello,

As this is my first post on this forum, I would like to introduce myself a bit ;-)
I'm a deepsky observer from Belgium and the proud owner of Obsession #693 (an 18''). I'm also one of the developers of DeepskyLog, an online logging tool for Deepsky observations.

Does anyone know where I can find the outlines of deepsky objects (including the milky way)? On the website of Jose Torres (www.uv.es/jrtorres), I could find some files which where made by Mark Smedley. However, I can not find a mail address of Mark Smedley, I don't know the format of these files or whether I can use these files myself...
Does anyone know of some other outline files which can be used freely? What are the most recent and best of these outline files?

Thanks a lot,

Wim

Wim,

What do you mean exactly as an outline?

Sorry for not being clear enough.
In most of the catalogs, you only get information about the location of the deep-sky objects and the size of the object.
However, some objects, like M 42 or ngc 6960/6992 have a very typical shape. I'm looking for a list of coordinates describing how these objects really look like. I found some lists and here is an example of the coordinates that should be connected to draw M 42 :

05.56401 -05.49880 start M 42
05.56759 -05.39201 vertex
05.56635 -05.31749 vertex
05.57158 -05.21922 vertex
05.57601 -05.21716 vertex
05.58830 -05.30164 vertex
05.59140 -05.34341 vertex
05.59028 -05.37076 vertex
05.59008 -05.38175 vertex
05.59581 -05.37159 vertex
05.59943 -05.47123 vertex
05.59912 -05.65838 vertex
05.59520 -05.73212 vertex
05.58490 -05.68102 vertex
05.56948 -05.57675 end

What I'm looking for is an up to date list, with the coordinates describing the shape of as many deep-sky objects as possible.

Thanks a lot!