Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs and surveys
c. 1800 BC — Babylonian star catalog (see Babylonian star catalogues)
c. 1370 BC; Observations for the Babylonia MUL.APIN (an astro catalog).
c. 350 BC — Shi Shen's star catalog has almost 800 entries
c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria
c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map
c. 140 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology
c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang
c. 750 — The first Zij treatise, Az-Zij ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab, written by Ibrahim al-Fazari and Muhammad al-Fazari
c. 777 — Yaqūb ibn Tāriq's Az-Zij al-Mahlul min as-Sindhind li-Darajat Daraja
c. 830 — Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī's Zij al-Sindhind
c. 840 — Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī's Compendium of the Science of the Stars
c. 900 — Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī's Az-Zij as-Sabi
964 — Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi)'s star catalog Book of the Fixed Stars
1031 — Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī's al-Qanun al-Mas'udi, making first use of a planisphere projection, and discussing the use of the astrolabe and the armillary sphere.
1088 — The first almanac is the Almanac of Azarqueil written by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Azarqueil)
1115–1116 — Al-Khazini's Az-Zij as-Sanjarī (Sinjaric Tables)
c. 1150 — Gerard of Cremona publishes Tables of Toledo based on the work of Azarqueil
1252–1270 — Alfonsine tables recorded by order of Alfonso X
1272 — Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī's Zij-i Ilkhani (Ilkhanic Tables)
1395 — Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido star map created at the order of King Taejo
c. 1400 — Jamshīd al-Kāshī's Khaqani Zij
1437 — Publication of Ulugh Beg's Zij-i-Sultani
1551 — Prussian Tables by Erasmus Reinhold
late 16th century — Tycho Brahe updates Ptolemy's Almagest
1577–1580 — Taqi al-Din's Unbored Pearl
1598 — Tycho Brahe publishes his "Thousand Star Catalog"
1603 — Johann Bayer's Uranometria
1627 — Johannes Kepler publishes his Rudolphine Tables of 1006 stars from Tycho plus 400 more
1678 — Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey
1712 — Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley publish a catalog based on data from a Royal Astronomer who left all his data under seal, the official version would not be released for another decade.
1725 — Posthumous publication of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica
1771 — Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae
1862 — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the Bonner Durchmusterung catalog of stars north of declination -1°.
1864 — John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters
1887 — Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically
1890 — John Dreyer publishes the New General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters
1932 — Harlow Shapley and Adelaide Ames publish A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude, later known as the Shapley-Ames Catalog
1948 — Antonín Bečvář publishes the Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens (Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso 1950.0)
1950–1957 — Completion of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) with the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope. Actual date quoted varies upon source.
1962 — A.S. Bennett of the Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group publishes the Revised 3C Catalogue of 328 radio sources
1965 — Gerry Neugebauer and Robert Leighton begin a 2.2 micrometre sky survey with a 1.6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson
1982 — IRAS space observatory completes an all-sky mid-infrared survey
1990 — Publication of APM Galaxy Survey of 2+ million galaxies, to study large-scale structure of the cosmos
1991 — ROSAT space observatory begins an all-sky X-ray survey
1993 — Start of the 20 cm VLA FIRST survey
1997 — Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) commences, first version of Hipparcos Catalogue published
1998 — Sloan Digital Sky Survey commences
2003 — 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey published; 2MASS completes
2012 — On March 14, 2012, a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky as imaged by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was released.<
