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An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. Astronomical catalogs are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind.

Contents

0–9

  • 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0
  • 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite
  • 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
  • 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey
  • 1FGL, 2FGL — Lists of gamma-ray sources from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
  • 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations
  • 1RXS — ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog
  • 1SWASP — SuperWASP
  • 2A — see 1A
  • 2C — Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
  • 2E — The Einstein Observatory Soft X-ray Source List
  • 2MASS — Two Micron All Sky Survey
  • 2MASP — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Prototype
  • 2MASSI — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Incremental release
  • 2MASSW — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Working database
  • 2MUCD — Ultracool Dwarfs from the 2MASS Catalog
  • 2MASX — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Extended source catalogue
  • 3A — see 1A
  • 3C (and 3CR) — Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (and revised)
  • 4C — Fourth Cambridge Survey of celestial radio sources
  • 5C — Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources
  • 6C — Sixth Cambridge Survey of radio sources
  • 7C — Seventh Cambridge Survey
  • 8C — Eighth Cambridge Survey
  • 8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec
  • 9C — Ninth Cambridge survey at 15GHz

    • A

  • Abell — Abell catalogue
  • AC — Astrographic Catalogue
  • ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue
  • AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
  • ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars
  • APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
  • Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
  • ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001)

    • B

  • B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
  • BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
  • BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation)
  • BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
  • BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
  • BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue
  • Be — Berkeley open cluster list (104 items)
  • BEN — Jack Bennett Catalog
  • BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
  • BRI — Bj, R, I survey

    • C

  • C — Caldwell catalogue
  • CCDM — Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars
  • CCO — Catalogue of Cometary Orbits
  • CCS — General Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars
  • CCS2 — General Catalog of S Stars, second edition
  • CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
  • CDIMP — Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
  • CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes
  • CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars
  • CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
  • CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
  • CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
  • Col — Collinder catalog
  • CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue
  • CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
  • CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue
  • CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
  • CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications
  • CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
  • CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars

    • D

  • DA — Dominion Observatory List A
  • DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds
  • DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey
  • DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
  • DM — Durchmusterung
  • BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
  • CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
  • CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
  • DO — Dearborn Observatory
  • DoDz - Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili open clusters catalogue (11 items)
  • Dolidze - Dolidze clusters list (57 items)
  • DR - Downes and Rinehart microwave sources

    • E

  • EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey
  • EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
  • EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets
  • ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog

    • F

  • FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
  • FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
  • FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
  • FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designation)
  • FSC — Faint Source Catalogue

    • G

  • G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)
  • GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas dwarf)
  • GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas red star)
  • HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas Hyades)
  • GAIA DR 1 Gaia Catalogue [3]
  • GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
  • GC (Boss) — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars
  • GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities
  • GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
  • GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
  • Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue
  • GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue
  • GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey
  • GSC — Guide Star Catalog
  • GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
  • GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
  • GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
  • Gum - Gum catalog of emission nebulae

    • H

  • HD — Henry Draper Catalogue
  • HCG — Hickson Compact Group
  • HDE — Henry Draper Extension
  • HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey
  • Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
  • HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
  • HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
  • HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
  • HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue)

    • I

  • IC — Index Catalogue
  • IC I — Index Catalogue I
  • IC II — Index Catalogue II
  • IDS — Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
  • IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source
  • IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
  • IRS — International Reference Star

    • J

  • J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see [4] for an article about it)
  • JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.

    • K

  • K2 - K2 (Kepler extended mission) catalog
  • Kepler — Kepler catalog
  • KIC — Kepler Input Catalog
  • KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman
  • KOI — Kepler Object of Interest
  • KUG - Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies
  • KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object

    • L

  • L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
  • Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (Lacaille)
  • Lac I — Nebulae
  • Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters
  • Lac III — Nebulous Stars
  • LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae
  • LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
  • LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue
  • LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
  • LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue
  • LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue
  • LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey
  • LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
  • LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below
  • LSN — Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way
  • LSPM — LSPM catalog - Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog
  • LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue
  • LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way
  • LTT — Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue

    • M

  • M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (Messier object)
  • MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events (Massive Compact Halo Object)
  • MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
  • MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
  • MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image
  • McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog
  • MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
  • MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford
  • Mel - Melotte Catalogue of Deep Sky Objects
  • MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
  • MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources
  • MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet

    • N

  • N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30
  • NGC — New General Catalogue
  • NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog
  • NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
  • NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) [5]
  • NStars — Nearby Stars Database
  • NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars

    • O

  • NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) [6]
  • OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogue [7]
  • OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
  • OSC — Open Supernova Catalog [8]
  • OSS — Ohio Sky Survey
  • OTC — Open TDE Catalog [9]

    • P

  • PGC — Principal Galaxies Catalogue
  • PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue
  • PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek)
  • PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins, Yale University)
  • PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog
  • PN — See PNG
  • PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae
  • PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues
  • PTFO — Palomar Transient Factory

    • Q

  • QSO — Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects

    • R

  • RAFGL - Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (four color infrared sky survey)
  • RC — Reference Catalogue
  • RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
  • RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
  • RCW — A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way
  • RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
  • RNGC — Revised New General Catalogue
  • Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars
  • ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars
  • RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
  • RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Rossiter)
  • RX — ROSAT observations

    • S

  • SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago
  • SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
  • SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue.
  • SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
  • SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
  • 1SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1st release
  • 2SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
  • 3SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
  • Sh — Sharpless catalog (Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2(1959))
  • SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre
  • SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey
  • SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars
  • SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue
  • SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
  • SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
  • SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
  • SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
  • STF — Struve the Father double star
  • Stock — Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in, Stock 3 to 23 in, Stock 24 in )

    • T

  • TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog
  • TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes (TD1 satellite)
  • TIC — Tycho Input Catalog
  • TrES — Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
  • TrES-And0 — TrES of planetary candidate in the Andromeda constellation
  • TVLM — Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue
  • TYC — Tycho Catalogue
  • TYC2 — Tycho-2 Catalogue
  • Trumpler — Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters

    • U

  • UBV — Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968)
  • UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987)
  • UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1, UCAC2 and UCAC3)
  • UGC — Uppsala General Catalogue
  • USNO — US Naval Observatory
  • USNO-A1.0 — US Naval Observatory, A1.0 catalogue
  • USNO-A2.0 — US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue
  • USNO-B1.0 — US Naval Observatory, B1.0 catalogue
  • uvby98 — uvbyβ photoelectric photometric catalogue, by B. Hauck, M. Mermilliod, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 129, 431-433 (1998)

    • V

  • vB — Van Biesbroeck's star catalog, variant, "VB"
  • VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog
  • VdB — Van den Bergh (catalogue of reflection nebulae)

    • W

  • W - Radiosource (Westerhout)
  • W20 — Washington 20 Catalog
  • WASP — Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
  • WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
  • WDS — Washington Double Star Catalog
  • WISE — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
  • WISEP — ?
  • WNC — Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars
  • Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue
  • Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars (Wolf)
  • WR — Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars

    • X

  • XBS — XMM-Newton, Bright Source
  • XBSS — XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
  • XEST — XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular
  • XEST-OM — XEST, Optical/UV Monitor
  • XTE — X-ray Timing Explorer

    • Y

  • YZ — Yale Observatory Zone Catalog

    • Z

  • Z — Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies
  • Book of Fixed Stars
  • Tables of Toledo
  • Zij-i Ilkhani
  • Zij-i-Sultani

    • References

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