astronomical catalogue An astronomical catalog or 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. The oldest and largest are star cat ...

is a list or tabulation of

astronomical object An astronomical object, celestial object, stellar object or heavenly body is a naturally occurring physical entity, association, or structure that exists in the observable universe. In astronomy, the terms ''object'' and ''body'' are often us ...

s, 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 An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky (or of the whole sky) that lacks a specific observational target. Alternatively, an astronomical survey may comprise a set of images, spectra, or other observations of obje ...

of some kind.

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* 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0See p. 20, X-ray sources in SIMBAD, J. M. Hameury, C. Motch, and M. Pakull, ''Bull. Inf. Centre Données Stellaires'' 47, pp. 19–20, . * 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the

Ariel V Ariel 5 (or UK 5) was a joint British and American space telescope dedicated to observing the sky in the X-ray band. It was launched on 15 October 1974 from the San Marco platform in the Indian Ocean and operated until 1980. It was the penultimat ...

satellite * 1C —

First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources The First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (1C) refers to the catalogue listed in the article ''Ryle M, Smith F G & Elsmore B (1950) MNRAS vol 110 pp508-523 "A Preliminary Survey of Radio Stars in the Northern Hemisphere"'' The 1C catalogue li ...

* 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey * 1FGL, 2FGL — Lists of gamma-ray sources from the

Large Area Telescope The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. Its main instrument is ...

on board the

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being used to perform gamma-ray astronomy observations from low Earth orbit. Its main instrument is ...

* 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations * 1RXS —

ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the Uni ...

ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the Uni ...

* 1SWASP —

SuperWASP WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets using transit photometry. The array of robotic telescopes aims to survey the entire sky, ...

* 2A — see 1A * 2C —

Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources The Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (2C) was published in 1955 by John R Shakeshaft and colleagues. It comprised a list of 1936 sources between declinations -38 and +83, giving their right ascension, declination, both in 1950.0 coordina ...

* 2E — The

Einstein Observatory Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) was the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space and the second of NASA's three High Energy Astrophysical Observatories. Named HEAO B before launch, the observatory's name was changed to honor Albert E ...

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 * 2MASS-GC (Globular Clusters, I.R.) (2MASS-GC 01 and 2MASS-GC 02 are Hurt 1 and Hurt 2) (source: Bruno Alessi) * 3A — see 1A * 3C (and 3CR) —

Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources The Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (3C) is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources detected originally at 159 MHz, and subsequently at 178 MHz. History 3C The catalogue was published in 1959 by members of the ...

(and revised) * 4C —

Fourth Cambridge Survey The Fourth Cambridge Survey (4C) is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources as measured at 178 MHz using the 4C Array. It was published in two parts, in 1965 (for declinations +20 to +40) and 1967 (declinations -7 to + 20 and +40 ...

of celestial radio sources * 5C —

Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources The 5C Survey of Radio Sources (5C) is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources as measured at 408 MHz and 1407 MHz. It was published in a number of parts between 1975 and 1995 by the Radio Astronomy Group of the University o ...

* 6C — Sixth Cambridge Survey of radio sources * 7C —

Seventh Cambridge Survey The 7C Survey (7C) of radio sources was performed by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group using the Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is located near ...

* 8C —

Eighth Cambridge Survey The 8C Survey (8C) or Rees 38 MHz survey is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources as measured at 38 MHz. It was published in 1990 by the Radio Astronomy Group of the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge i ...

* 8pc — 8

parsec The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to or (au), i.e. . The parsec unit is obtained by the use of parallax and trigonometry, and ...

listing, ''all stars within 8 parsec'' * 9C —

Ninth Cambridge survey at 15GHz The 9C survey at 15 GHz (9C) is an astronomical catalogue generated from the radio observations of the Ninth Cambridge survey at 15 GHz. It was published in 2003 by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group of the University of Cambridge. The cata ...

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* AB - Azzopardi / Breysacher (Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC) * Abel (globular star clusters) * Abell —

Abell catalogue The Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift ''z'' ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George O. Abell's original "Northern Survey" of 1958, wh ...

* Abetti -

Giorgio Abetti Prof Giorgio Abetti HFRSE (5 October 1882 – 24 August 1982) was an Italian Sun, solar astronomer.G. GodolABETTI, Giorgio Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian) Life He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. ...

(double stars) * Abt - (for example: open star cluster Abt 1 = Biurakan 4 = Markarian 6) * AC —

Astrographic Catalogue The Carte du Ciel (literally, 'Map of the Sky') and the Astrographic Catalogue (or Astrographic Chart) were two distinct but connected components of a massive international astronomical project, initiated in the late 19th century, to catalogue an ...

* A.C. -

Alvan Clark Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887), born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, the descendant of a Cape Cod whaling family of English ancestry, was an American astronomer and telescope maker. Biography He started as a portrait painter and engra ...

(double stars) * Ac / Ack -

Agnès Acker Agnès Acker (born 28 February 1940) is a French astrophysicist, professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg, founder of the Strasbourg Planetarium and founding president of the Association of French-speaking Planetaries (APLF). Her resear ...

(planetary nebulae) * A.G.C. -

Alvan Graham Clark Alvan Graham Clark (July 10, 1832 – June 9, 1897) was an American astronomer and telescope-maker. Biography Alvan Graham Clark was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Alvan Clark, founder of Alvan Clark & Sons. On January 31, 1862, ...

(double stars) * AGC -

Arecibo Arecibo (; ) is a city and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida. It is about west of San Juan, the ...

General Catalog * ADS —

Aitken Double Star Catalogue The Aitken Double Star Catalogue, or ADS, is a star catalogue of double stars. It was compiled by Robert Grant Aitken and published in 1932 in two volumes, under the name ''New general catalogue of double stars within 120° of the North Pole''. It ...

* AFGL - Air Force Geophysical Laboratory * Ag - Aguero (catalogue of peculiar galaxies, captured during the ''Palomar Sky Survey'') * AG, AGK, AGKR —

Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog The ''Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog'' (AGK) is an astrometric star catalogue. Compilation for the first version, AGK1, was started in 1861 by Friedrich Argelander and published between 1890 and 1954, listing 200 000 stars down to ninth m ...

* AH03 - (star clusters) (source: Bruno Alessi's list) * Al - Allen (planetary nebulae) * Alden - H.L. Alden (double stars) * Alessi - Bruno Sampaio Alessi's catalogue of telescopic asterisms and open star clusters * Alessi / Teutsch - Bruno S. Alessi's and Philipp Teutsch's catalogue of telescopic asterisms and open star clusters * Ali - H. Ali (double stars) * Alicante (for example: open star cluster Alicante 1 at 3:59:18 / +57°14'14") * Aller - R.M. Aller (double stars) * ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars * Alter (open star clusters) * Alves / Yun (open star clusters) * AM - Arp-Madore catalogue of open and globular star clusters (Halton Arp / Barry F. Madore) (for example: Arp-Madore 1 in Horologium,

Arp-Madore 2 Arp-Madore 2 (also known as AM 2) is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Puppis. It is almost 30,000 light-year A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a large unit of length used to express astronomical distances an ...

in Puppis) * An - Anderson (double stars) * Andrews / Lindsay (AL) (open star clusters) * Annis (?) * APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine * Apriamashvili (open star clusters) * Ara - (for example: Ara 2035 at 7:08.8/-24°03' Canis Major) (see Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2, page 48) (S.Aravamudan?) * Arak / Ark - Marat Arsen Arakelian, 1929-1983 ( Arakelian Emission Line Objects) * Arce / Goodman (open star clusters) * Archinal - probably Brent A. Archinal (for example: open star cluster Archinal 1 at 18:54:49 / +5°32'54") * Arg - F.W.A. Argelander (double stars) * ARO - Algonquin Radio Observatory * Arp —

Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies The ''Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies'' is a catalog of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp in 1966. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which was originally published in 1966 by the California Institute of Technology. The p ...

* ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001) * Auner - (for example: open star cluster Auner 1 at 7:04:16 / -19°45'00" in Canis Major) (Auner 1 is the cluster which was "lost" in the disturbing ghost reflection of nearby Alpha Canis Majoris, aka

Sirius Sirius is the list of brightest stars, brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Ancient Greek language, Greek word , or , meaning 'glowing' or 'scorching'. The star is designated α Canis Majoris, Latinisation ...

, this during the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, POSS) * Av - Antalova (open star clusters) * Av-Hunter - Aveni / Hunter (open star clusters) * AXP - Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar * AZ / AzV - Azzopardi-Vigneau

B

* β - S. W. Burnham (double stars) * βpm - Burnham's measures of proper motion stars, 1913 catalogue. * B - Willem H. van den Bos (double stars) * B —

E. E. Barnard Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer. He was commonly known as E. E. Barnard, and was recognized as a gifted observational astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of the high proper mo ...

List of Dark Nebulae This is a list of dark nebulae (absorption nebulae), also called "dark clouds". List *E Nebula ( Barnard 142 and 143) *Barnard 68, possibly the closest to Earth at about 400 light-years. *Bernes 157 (Sandqvist and Lindroos, SL 39-41), another cl ...

* Ba - Barnard (double stars) * Ba - Baade (planetary nebulae) * BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog * Bail / Bal - R. Baillaud (double stars) * Baize / Baz -

Paul Baize Paul Achille‐Ariel Baize (11 March 1901 – 6 October 1995) was a French pediatrician and amateur astronomer specialising in double star observations. He started with his observations of double stars in 1925. Between 1933 and 1971 he was allow ...

(Paul Achille-Ariel Baize, 1901-1995) (double stars) * Balbinot (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster Balbinot 1 in Pegasus) * Bar - Barkhatova (open star clusters) (for example: Barkhatova 1, NNW of NGC 7000; the

North America Nebula The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). The shape of the nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complet ...

in Cygnus) * BAR - E.E.Barton (double stars) * Bas - Basel (open star clusters) * Bat - Hans Battermann, 1860-1922 (double stars) * BAT99 - The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud * BAY —

Uranometria ''Uranometria'' is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer. It was published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mangle (''Christophorus Mangus'') under the full title ''Uranometria: omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, ae ...

(

Bayer designation A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name. The original list of Bayer designations contained 1,564 stars. ...

) * BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars * BD —

Bonner Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, compiled by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1903. The name comes from ('run-through examination'), a German word used for ...

* BDS —

Burnham Double Star Catalogue The Burnham Double Star Catalogue (BDS) is a catalogue of double stars within 121° of the celestial North Pole. It was published in two parts by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1906, under the title ''A General Catalogue of Double Stars ...

* BDS03 (I.R.) - (open star clusters) * BDSB - (for example: open star cluster BDSB 96 at 7:05:18 / -12°19'44") * BDSB03 (I.R.) - (open star clusters) * Be - Bergvall (catalogue of some 400 interacting and distorted galaxies found on glass copies of the ''ESO Blue Survey'') (source: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations, Volume 1 - H.C.Arp / B.F.Madore) * Be — Berkeley (open star clusters) (104 items) * Be - Bernes * Bedin - Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Bedin I in Pavo) * Ben — Jack Bennett's catalogue of 152 deep-sky objects in the southern celestial hemisphere, all from the NGC or IC lists, except Ben 47 which is Melotte 105 in Carina, and Ben 72a which is Trumpler 23 in Norma * Bergeron - Joe Bergeron (for example: Bergeron 1 in Cepheus, Sky & Telescope 12/'04, Page 86) * BFS - Blitz-Fitch-Stark (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus, Sky & Telescope 12/'04, page 87) * BH - Van den Bergh / Hagen (open star clusters), see also VdB-Ha * Bhas/Bha - T.P.Bhaskavan (double stars) * Bi - Biurakan (open star clusters) * Bica - (open star clusters) * Bica / Schmitt (open star clusters) * Big - Guillaume Bigourdan (double stars) * Bird - F.Bird (double stars) * Bl - Victor Manuel Blanco (for example: open star cluster Blanco 1 in Sculptor) * Bloch/Blo - M. Bloch (double stars) * Bo - Bochum (open star clusters) * Bo - Bond (double stars) * BoBn - Boeshaar-Bond (planetary nebulae) * Bode - (telescopic asterisms) * Boe - Boeger (double stars) * Bogleiv (open star clusters) * Bonatto (open star clusters) * Boo - Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874-1965 (double stars) * Boy - Bowyer (double stars) * BPI - (open star clusters) * BPM / L —

Bruce Proper Motion Survey The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a ...

(Luyten) * BPMA - Bordeaux Catalogue (double stars) * Bradley * Brandt - (for example: open star cluster Brandt 1 at 8:09:32 / -47°20'12") ( = Pozzo 1) (very near

Gamma Velorum Gamma Velorum is a quadruple star system in the constellation Vela. This name is the Bayer designation for the star, which is Latinised from γ Velorum and abbreviated γ Vel. At a combined magnitude of +1.7, it is one of t ...

, also known as 'Regor') * Brand / Wouterloot (BW) (open star clusters) * Brey - Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf Rayet stars * BRI — B_j, R, I survey * Briceno (open star clusters) * Brosch - (open star clusters) * Brso/Bso - Brisbane Observatory, Australia (double stars) * Brt - S.G.Barton (double stars) * Btz - E.Bernewitz (double stars) * Bry - Walter William Bryant (double stars) * BV - Bohm-Vitense (planetary nebulae) * BVD - R.Benavides (double stars)

C

* C —

Caldwell catalogue The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue. While the Messier catalog ...

(Sir Patrick Moore) * Caballero-Solano - (for example: open star cluster Caballero-Solano 1 at Delta Orionis, also known as the Mintaka cluster) * Calvet - (telescopic asterisms) * Camargo - (open star clusters) * Canali - (telescopic asterisms) * Capo/Cpo - Cape Observatory, South Africa (double stars) * CARMA * Carpenter - (for example: Carpenter 1 at galactic coordinates 213.34 / -12.60) (= BDB 229, = FSR 1086, = MWSC 732) * Carraro - (for example: open star cluster Carraro 1 at 10:37:00 / -58°44'00") (NW of the Eta Carinae Nebula) * CBB - (open star clusters) * CCCP-Cl - (open star clusters) * CCCP-Gp - (open star clusters) * CCCS - Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars * CCDM —

Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars The Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars, or CCDM, is an astrometric star catalogue of double and multiple stars. It was made by Jean Dommanget and Omer Nys at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in order to provide an input cata ...

* CCO —

Catalogue of Cometary Orbits Catalog or catalogue may refer to: *Cataloging **'emmy on the 'og **in science and technology ***Library catalog, a catalog of books and other media ****Union catalog, a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries ...

* CCS —

General Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...

** CCS2 —

General Catalog of S Stars A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED O ...

, second edition * CD / CoD —

Cordoba Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, compiled by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1903. The name comes from ('run-through examination'), a German word used for ...

* CDIMP — Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets * CED - Cederblad (gaseous nebula) * CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes * Cezar - (for example: Cezar 6 at galactic coordinates 204.93 / -13.83) * CFBDSIR - Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey (IR = Infra Red?) * CG - Cometary Globule (for example:

CG 4 CG 4, commonly referred to as God's Hand, is a star-forming region located in the Puppis constellation, about from Earth. It is one of several objects referred to as " cometary globules", because its shape is similar to that of a comet. It has a ...

in Puppis, also known as 'God's Hand') * CGCG -

Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies The Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (or CGCG) was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961–68. It contains 29,418 galaxies and 9,134 galaxy clusters. Gallery File:I Zwicky 18a.jpg, I Zwicky 18 File:Galaxy I Zwicky 32.jpeg, I Zwicky 3 ...

* CGCS - Catalogue of Galactic Cool Carbon Stars * CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars * CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars * Chaple - (for example: Chaple 1 at galactic coordinates 74.46 / +3.66, which is an asterism called ''Chaple's Arc'', and also ''Cygnus Fairy Ring'', and ''HD 190466 Group'', and ''Ramakers 20'') * Chatard - (telescopic asterisms) * Che - P. S. Chevalier (double stars) * Chereul - (moving groups of stars) * Chiravalle - (for example: Chiravalle 1 at galactic coordinates 75.25 / +27.91, which is an asterism called ''Candle and Holder''). * Chupina - (Chupina objects 1 to 5 are located at and near open star cluster Messier 67 in Cancer) * CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations * CLUST - (open star clusters) * CMC —

Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue Carlsberg may refer to: Places * Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark ** Carlsberg station, its train station * Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses * Carlsb ...

* Cn - Cannon (planetary nebulae) (Cn1 / Cn2 / Cn3) * Cog - Cogshall (double stars) * Col - Collins (double stars) * Com - G. C. Comstock (double stars) * Cop - Copeland (double stars) * Coro/Coo - Cordoba Observatory, Argentina (double stars) * CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue ** CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue * Cou - Paul Couteau (double stars) * CP - Cambridge Pulsar * CPC —

Cape Photographic Catalogue The Cape Photographic Catalogue (CPC) is a star catalogue A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues whic ...

* CPD —

Cape Photographic Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, compiled by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1903. The name comes from ('run-through examination'), a German word used for ...

* Cr -

Collinder In astronomy, the Collinder catalogue is a catalogue of 471 open clusters by Swedish astronomer Per Collinder. It was published in 1931 as an appendix to Collinder's paper ''On structural properties of open galactic clusters and their spatial dist ...

(open star clusters) (

Per Collinder Per Collinder (22 May 1890 – 6 December 1975) was a Swedish astronomer. Born at Sundsvall, he is known for a catalog of open clusters that he published in 1931, which is today known as the Collinder catalogue. He has written the books ''His ...

) * Crinklaw - (telescopic asterisms) * CRL - Cambridge Research Laboratory Sky-Survey * Cruls/Cru - L. Cruls (double stars) * CSI —

Catalog of Stellar Identifications The Catalog of Stellar Identifications (CSI) is a star catalog which was constructed to facilitate cross-referencing between different star catalogs. It contains designations and basic data for, as of 1983, approximately 440,000 stars, and was cre ...

* CSV —

Catalog of Suspected Variables The ''New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars'' (NSV) is a star catalogue containing 14,811 stars which, although suspected to be variable, were not given variable star designations In astronomy, a variable star designation is a unique identif ...

* CSS —

General Catalogue of S Stars A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED On ...

* Cz - Czernik (open star clusters)

D

* D —

James Dunlop James Dunlop FRSE (31 October 1793 – 22 September 1848) was a Scottish astronomer, noted for his work in Australia. He was employed by Sir Thomas Brisbane to work as astronomer's assistant at his private observatory, once located at Paramat ...

(A catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars in the southern hemisphere, observed at Parramatta in New South Wales) * DA —

Dominion Observatory The Dominion Observatory was an astronomical observatory in Ottawa, Ontario that operated from 1902 to 1970. The Observatory was also an institution within the Canadian Federal Government. The observatory grew out of the Department of the Int ...

List A * Danjon - Andre Danjon (double stars) * Danks - (open star clusters) * Dawes - W.R.Dawes (double stars) * δ - B.H.Dawson (double stars) * DBSB03, I.R. - (open star clusters) * DB2000 (Dutra-Bica 2000, I.R.) (open star clusters) * DB2001 (Dutra-Bica 2001, I.R.) (open star clusters) * DC - (open star clusters) * DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds * DDO - David Dunlap Observatory (Dwarf Galaxies) * DeHt - Dengel-Hartl (planetary nebulae) * Dem - Ercole Dembowski (double stars) * DENIS —

Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky The Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky (DENIS) was a deep astronomical survey of the southern sky in the near-infrared and optical wavelengths, using an ESO 1-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory. It operated from 1996 to 2001. ...

** DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation * Desvoivres - (telescopic asterisms) * DHW - Dengel-Hartl-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * Dias - Wilton S. Dias, UNIFEI (open star clusters) * Dick - J.Dick (double stars) * Djorg - Stanislav George Djorgovski (globular star clusters) (for example: Djorgovski 1 in Scorpius) * Dju - P.Djurkovic (double stars) * DM —

Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, compiled by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1903. The name comes from ('run-through examination'), a German word used for ...

** BD —

** CD / CoD —

** CPD —

* DN - Duus-Newell (Catalogue of Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies) (Alan Duus / Barry Newell) * DnB
Open Source
(nebulae) * DO —

Dearborn Observatory The Dearborn Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the Evanston, Illinois, Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The observatory was originally constructed in 1888, through an agreement between the university and the Chicago ...

* Do - Dolidze (open star clusters) (57 items) * Dob - A.W.Doberck (double stars) * Dom - Jean Dommanget (double stars) * Don - H.F.Donner (double stars) * Donatiello - Giuseppe Donatiello (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Donatiello I in Andromeda) * Doo - Eric Doolittle (double stars) * DoDz - Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili (open star clusters) (11 items) * Dorpat - Dorpat Observatory, Estonia * DR - Downes and Rinehart microwave sources * Du - Duner (double stars) * Δ - James Dunlop (double stars) * Dutra-Bica (open star clusters) * DWB - Dickel, Wendker, Bieritz (A catalogue of optically visible HII regions in the Cygnus X region) * Dwingeloo - Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey (DOGS) (for example:

Dwingeloo 1 Dwingeloo 1 is a barred spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies in the Zone of Avoidance and is heavily obscured by the Milky Way. The size and mass of Dwingeloo 1 are comparabl ...

and

Dwingeloo 2 Dwingeloo 2 is a small irregular galaxy discovered in 1996 and located about 10 million light-years away from the Earth. Its discovery was a result of the Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey (DOGS) of the Zone of Avoidance using the Dwingeloo Radio ...

in Cassiopeia)

E

* E - (for example: globular star cluster E 3 at 9:20:59 / -77°16'57", in Chamaeleon) (source: Bruno Alessi's and Wilton Dias's lists) * EC —

Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey The Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey (or EC in astronomical notation)C. Aerts, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. W. Kurtz, ''Asteroseismology'' (2010), p. 105. is a major astronomical survey to discover blue stellar objects brighter than B~18 in the so ...

* Edg - D.W.Edgecomb (double stars) * G97- Eckart + Genzel, 1997 (Stars close to

Sagittarius A* Sagittarius A* ( ), abbreviated Sgr A* ( ), is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. It is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, vi ...

, like G972.) * Egb - Egbert (double stars) * EGB - Ellis-Grayson-Bond (planetary nebulae) * Eggen - Olin J. Eggen (double stars) * EGGR —

Eggen Eggen may refer to * Eggen (Betten), a heritage site in the municipality of Betten in the Swiss canton of Valais * Eggen (Eggerberg), a settlement in the municipality of Eggerberg in the Swiss canton of Valais * Eggen (Simplon), a heritage site in ...

-Greenstein proper motion star * Elosser - (telescopic asterisms) * EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets * Eng - Engelmann (double stars) * EPIC - Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog * Escorial - (open star clusters) * ESO —

European Southern Observatory Catalog The European Southern Observatory Catalog is an astronomical catalog that contains a log of observations performed with the ESO telescopes at La Silla and Paranal observatories, including the APEX The apex is the highest point of something. The ...

* Esp - T. E. H. Espin (double stars) * Es/Birm - Espin/Birmingham (catalogue of red stars)

F

* F - Fath - Edward Arthur Fath, 1880-1959 (for example: galaxy Fath 703, aka NGC 5892, in Libra) * Fa - Fairall (Anthony Patrick Fairall, 1943-2008) * FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue * Fei - Feinstein (open star clusters) * Feibelman (for example: open star cluster Feibelman 1 near 'The Revenante of the Swan' 34-P Cygni) * Feigelson (for example: open star cluster Feigelson 1 at 11:59:51 / -78:12:27) * Ferrero (telescopic asterisms) * Φ - W.S.Finsen (double stars) * Fg - Fleming (planetary nebulae), for example:

Fleming 1 Fleming 1 is an unusual planetary nebula situated in the Centaurus constellation. It has a pair of symmetrical jets spanning more than 2.8 pc and delineated with a number of knots. The jets and knots are moving away from the center of the nebul ...

* FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue * FK5 —

Fifth Fundamental Catalogue Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash that ...

* Fle - J.O.Fleckenstein (double stars) * FLM —

Historia coelestis Britannica John Flamsteed (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, ''Catalogus Britannicus'', and a star atlas called ''Atlas Coe ...

(

Flamsteed designation A Flamsteed designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the modern constellations visible from southern England. They are named for John Flamsteed who first used them while co ...

) * For - L.Forgeron (double stars) * Fox - Philip Fox (double stars) * French - Sue French (from Sky and Telescope) * Fr - Frolov (open star clusters) * Franz - J.Franz (double stars) * Frh - R.Furuhjelm (double stars) * Frk - W.S.Franks (double stars and colours of stars) (probably

William Sadler Franks William Sadler Franks (26 April 1851 in Newark, Nottinghamshire – 19 June 1935 in East Grinstead) was a British astronomer. Franks was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society on 9 January 1880. From 1890 to 1894 he directed the British A ...

, published a catalogue of the colours of 3890 stars) * FSC —

Faint Source Catalogue Faint or Fainting may refer to: * Syncope (medicine), a medical term for fainting * Lightheadedness, in the sense of "feeling faint" * "Faint" (song), by Linkin Park * The Faint The Faint is an American indie rock band. Formed in Omaha, Nebr ...

* FSR - Froebrich-Scholz-Raftery, I.R. (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster

FSR 1758 FSR 1758 is a large and bright but heavily obscured globular cluster belonging to the Milky Way galaxy. It is located at a distance of about 11.5 kpc from the Sun and about 3.7 kpc from the center of the galaxy. As FSR 1758 lies behind ...

in Scorpius) * Fur - H.Furner (double stars)

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) * Gale - W.F.Gale (double stars) * Gallo - J.Gallo (double stars) * GAn - G.Anderson (double stars) * Gaia DR1 ( Gaia catalogue, general purpose

* Gaia DR2 (Gaia catalogue, general purpose

* Gaia EDR3 (Gaia catalogue, general purpose

* GC —

General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED On ...

* GC (Boss) —

Boss general catalogue ''Boss General Catalogue'' (''GC'', sometimes General Catalogue) is an astronomical catalogue containing 33,342 stars. It was compiled by Benjamin Boss and published in the United States in 1936. Its original name was ''General Catalogue of 33, ...

of 33342 stars * GCRV —

General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities The ''General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities'' is a star catalogue which lists radial velocities for 15,107 stars. It was compiled by Ralph Elmer Wilson and published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1953. Many of the velocit ...

* GCTP —

General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, ...

* GCVS —

General Catalog of Variable Stars The General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) is a list of variable stars. Its first edition, containing 10,820 stars, was published in 1948 by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and edited by B. V. Kukarkin and P. P. Parenago. Second and thi ...

* Giclas - Henry L. Giclas (double stars) * Gl / GJ —

Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue The ''Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars'' (, English ) is a star catalogue listing stars located within 25 parsecs (81.54 ly) of the Sun. First edition and supplements In 1957 German astronomer Wilhelm Gliese published his first star catalogue o ...

or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue * GJJC - Gillett-Jacoby-Joyce-Cohen (planetary nebulae) * Gli - J.M.Gilliss (double stars) * GLIMPSE - (together with ''Mercer'' in the list of 10978 star clusters) * Glp - S. de Glasenapp (double stars) * GM - Gyulbudaghian-Maghakian (planetary nebulae) * Gol - H.Goldschmidt (double stars) * GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue ** GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey * Goyal - A.N.Goyal (double stars) * Graham (for example: open star cluster Graham 1 at 10:56:32 / -63:01:04) * Gr - Grant (double stars) * Grasdalen (open star clusters) * GR - Gibson Reaves (for example: Gibson Reaves 8 (GR 8) (galaxy) in Virgo) (Gibson Reaves, 1923-2005) * GRB - Gamma Ray Burst * Grindlay (globular star clusters) (for example: Grindlay 1 in Scorpius, at 17:32.0 / -33°50') (source: The Deep Sky Field Guide To Uranometria 2000.0, Cragin-Lucyk-Rappaport) (and also Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2) * GRO - Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA - Compton) * Groombridge (Stephen Groombridge, 1755-1832) * GSC —

Guide Star Catalog The Guide Star Catalog (GSC), also known as the ''Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog'' (''HSTGC''), is a star catalog compiled to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targeting off-axis stars. GSC-I contained approximately 20,000,000 stars w ...

** GSC2 / GSC II —

Guide Star Catalog II The Guide Star Catalog (GSC), also known as the ''Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog'' (''HSTGC''), is a star catalog compiled to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targeting off-axis stars. GSC-I contained approximately 20,000,000 stars w ...

* GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog ** GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd * Gsh - J.Glaisher (double stars) * GΣ - G.Struve (double stars) * Gtb - K.Gottlieb (double stars) * Gui - J.Guillaume (double stars) * Gum -

Gum catalog The Gum catalog is an astronomical catalog of 84 emission nebulae in the southern sky. It was made by the Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum (1924-1960) at Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings i ...

of emission nebulae

H

* h - John Herschel (double stars) * H - Haro (planetary nebulae) * H - Harvard (open star clusters) * H - William Herschel (double stars) * HA - ? (for example: galaxy HA 85 in Telescopium, see chart 26 in Wil Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0) (however, chart 435 in Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 2, 1987 edition, shows this object as ESO 183-G30) * Haf - Haffner (open star clusters) * Hall - Asaph Hall (double stars) * HAT - Hungarian Automated Telescope (search for extrasolar planets) * HaTr - Hartl-Tritton (planetary nebulae) * Haufen - (for example: Haufen A in Cetus, at 1h 08.9m / -15° 25' (2000.0), which is, according to ''Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2'', the same as Abell 151) * Hav/Moffat - Havlen-Moffat (open star clusters) * Hb - Hubble (planetary nebulae) * HC - Howell-Crisp (planetary nebulae) * HCG —

Hickson Compact Group A Hickson Compact Group (abbreviation: HCG) is a collection of galaxies designated as published by Paul Hickson in 1982. The most famous group on Hickson's list of 100 objects is HCG 92, Stephan's Quintet. Hickson Compact Groups According to Hic ...

* HCWils - H.C.Wilson (double stars) * HD - Henry Draper Catalogue * HDE — Henry Draper Extension * HDEC — Henry Draper Extension Charts * HdO - Harvard Observatory USA, and stations elsewhere (double stars) * HDW - Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * Hdz - Harvard Zone Catalogues (double stars) * HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey * He - Henize (planetary nebulae) * Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds * Hf - Hoffleit (planetary nebulae) * HFG - Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull * HH - Herbig-Haro object * HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue * HIP —

Hipparcos Catalogue ''Hipparcos'' was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993. It was the first space experiment devoted to precision astrometry, the accurate measurement of the positions of celestial o ...

* HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey * Hld - E.S.Holden (double stars) * Hlm - E.Holmes (double stars) * Hln - Frank Holden (double stars) * HN - William Herschel's 1821 catalogue (double stars) * Ho - Hogg (open star clusters) * Ho - G.W.Hough (double stars) * Holmberg - Erik Holmberg (dwarf irregular galaxies) * Hooke - Robert Hooke (double stars) * Howe - H.A.Howe (double stars) * HP - Haute Provence (globular star clusters) (for example: HP 1 in Ophiuchus, at 17:31.1 / -29°59') (source: The Deep Sky Field Guide To Uranometria 2000.0, Cragin-Lucyk-Rappaport) (and also Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2) * HR —

Bright Star Catalogue The Bright Star Catalogue, also known as the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars, Yale Bright Star Catalogue, or just YBS, is a star catalogue that lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the na ...

(Harvard Revised Catalogue) * Hrg - L.Hargrave (double stars) * Hrr - Harrington (telescopic asterisms) * HΣ - Hermann Struve (double stars) * HS - Hamburg Survey (quasars and blue stars) * HSC - Hubble Source Catalog (lists of sources from the

Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope (often referred to as HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most versa ...

) * Hst - C.S.Hastings (double stars) * Hu - Humason (planetary nebulae) * Hu - W.J.Hussey (double stars) * Hurt - Robert Hurt (for example: globular star cluster Hurt 2, aka 2MASS-GC02 in Sagittarius) * Huygens - Christiaan Huygens (double stars) * HV - Harvard Variable * HVGC - Hyper Velocity Globular Cluster (for example:

HVGC-1 HVGC-1 is the first discovered hypervelocity globular cluster. Discovered in 2014, it was found escaping the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87, in the Virgo Cluster. It is one of thousands of globular clusters found in M87. It is the first h ...

in the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in Virgo) * HVS - HyperVelocity Stars * Hynek - J. Allen Hynek (double stars) * Hz - Wulff D. Heintz (double stars) * Hzg - E.Hertzsprung (double stars)

I

* I - Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (R.T.A.Innes, 1861-1933) (double stars) * IC —

Index Catalogue The ''New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars'' (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and em ...

** IC I — Index Catalogue I ** IC II — Index Catalogue II * IDS —

Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars The Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars, or IDS, is a catalog of double stars. It was published by Lick Observatory in 1963 and contains measurements for 64,250 objects, covering the entire sky. The database used to construct this catalog was l ...

* IGR —

Integral Gamma-Ray source In mathematics, an integral assigns numbers to functions in a way that describes displacement, area, volume, and other concepts that arise by combining infinitesimal data. The process of finding integrals is called integration. Along with d ...

* IPHAS — The INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane * IRAS —

Infrared Astronomical Satellite The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (Dutch: ''Infrarood Astronomische Satelliet'') (IRAS) was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten mont ...

* IRS — International Reference Star * Isk - Iskudarian (open star clusters) * Isserstedt (telescopic asterisms) * IsWe - Ishida-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * Ivanov (open star clusters)

J

* J —

Robert Jonckheere The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

's catalogue of double star observations (se

for an article about it) * Ja - Jacoby (planetary nebulae) * JaFu - Jacoby-Fullton (planetary nebulae) * JAn - John A. Anderson (double stars) * Jc -

William Stephen Jacob William Stephen Jacob (1813–1862) was an English immigrant astronomer in India, who acted as the director of the Madras Observatory from 1848 to 1859. His early claim of 1855 to have detected an exoplanet, in orbit around 70 Ophiuchi, is now th ...

(double stars) * Jef - H.M.Jeffers (double stars) * Jn - Jones (planetary nebulae) * JnEr - Jones-Emberson (planetary nebulae) * Jo - Jones (double stars) * Johansson - (open star clusters) (for example: Johansson 1 at 15:46:20 / -52:22:54) * Joy -

Alfred Harrison Joy Alfred Harrison Joy (September 23, 1882 in Greenville, Illinois – April 18, 1973 in Pasadena, California) was an astronomer best known for his work on stellar distances, the radial motion of stars, and variable stars. A crater on the moon has ...

(double stars) * Jsp - Morris Ketchum Jessup (double stars) * Juchert - (open star clusters) * Juchert-Saloranta (telescopic asterisms) * JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.

K

* K - Lubos Kohoutek (planetary nebulae) * Ka - Valentina Karachentseva (dwarf galaxies) * Karhula - (for example: open star cluster Karhula 1 near planetary nebula Messier 76 in Perseus) * - K2 (

Kepler Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws o ...

extended mission) catalog * KELT -

Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (or KELT) is an astronomical observation system formed by two robotic telescopes that are conducting a survey for transiting exoplanets around bright stars. The project is jointly administered by member ...

(search for extrasolar planets) * Kemble - Father Lucian Kemble (asterisms which could be observed through binoculars) * Kepler —

catalog * Kes - Kesteven (supernova remnants). For example:

Kesteven 79 Kes 79 (G33.6+0.1) is a supernova remnant. It is located in the constellation Aquila, preceding LDN617 (Lynds Dark Nebula 617). References {{Reflist See also * List of supernova remnants This is a list of observed supernova remnants (SNRs) in t ...

* K / Kg - Ivan R. King (open star clusters) * KGZ —

Catalogue de Zimmerman Catalog or catalogue may refer to: *Cataloging **'emmy on the 'og **in science and technology *** Library catalog, a catalog of books and other media ****Union catalog, a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of librarie ...

* Kharchenko (for example: open star cluster Kharchenko 1 at 6:08:48 / +24:19:54) * KIC —

Kepler Input Catalog The Kepler Input Catalog (or KIC) is a publicly searchable database of roughly 13.2 million targets used for the Kepler Spectral Classification Program (SCP) and ''Kepler''. Overview The Kepler SCP targets were observed by the 2MASS project ...

* Kim - Dongwon Kim (for example: globular star cluster

Kim 2 Kim 2, also known as Indus I, is a distant globular cluster in the constellation of Indus. It was discovered by Dongwon Kim of the Stromlo Milky Way Satellite Survey run by the Australian National University using the SkyMapper telescope images. Si ...

in Indus) * KjPn - Kazaryan-Parsamyan (planetary nebulae) * Klemola (for example: Klemola 44 galaxy cluster in Sculptor) (? - Arnold Richard Klemola, 1931-2019) * KnFs - Kinman-Feast-Lasker (planetary nebulae) * Knott / Kn - G.Knott (double stars) * KOI — Kepler Object of Interest * Kontizas (for example: Kontizas 953 in Dorado) (in the Large Magellanic Cloud) * Koposov (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star clusters

Koposov 1 Koposov 1 is a low-luminosity globular cluster in the constellation Virgo in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered, along with globular cluster Koposov 2 by S. Koposov et al. in 2007. Koposov 1 and Koposov 2 were described by their ...

and

Koposov 2 Koposov 2 is a low-luminosity globular cluster in the constellation Gemini in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered, along with globular cluster Koposov 1 by S. Koposov et al. in 2007. Koposov 1 and Koposov 2 were described by thei ...

in Virgo and Gemini) * Kr - A.Kruger (double stars) (probably Karl Nikolaus Adalbert Krueger, 1832-1896) * Kron - (globular star clusters) (for example: Kron 3 in Tucana) * Kronberger - (for example: open star cluster Kronberger 1 in Auriga) * Kru - E.C.Kruger (double stars) * Ku - F.Kustner (double stars) * KUG - Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies * Kui - Gerard P. Kuiper, 1905-73 (double stars) * KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object

L

* L / BPM —

( Luyten) * La - Langley (double stars) * Lac - N. de Lacaille, 1713-62 (double stars) * Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (

Lacaille Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (; 15 March 171321 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good ...

) ** Lac I — Nebulae ** Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters ** Lac III — Nebulous Stars * Laevens - Benjamin P. M. Laevens (globular clusters and dwarf galaxies), for example: Laevens 1 in Crater, Laevens 2 in Triangulum (

Triangulum II Triangulum II (Tri II or Laevens 2) is a dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way Galaxy. Like other dwarf spheroidal galaxies, its stellar population is very old: the galaxy was quenched before 11.5 billion years ago. It contains only 1000 stars, yet ...

Laevens 3 Laevens 3 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Delphinus. It belongs to the Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light se ...

in Delphinus. * Lal - F. de Lalande (double stars) * Lam - J. von Lamont (double stars) * λ (Lambda) - (mentioned in T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars, pages 285-319: Index of Double Stars, Epoch 2000) **Printed examples from the 'Lambda' catalogue: λ 32 (RA 3:47.9), λ 88 (RA 7:48.9), λ 91 (RA 7:55.7), λ 96 (RA 8:12.5), λ 108 (RA 9:0.3), λ 115 (RA 9:37.1), λ 140 (RA 11:56.7), λ 176 (RA 13:20.5), λ 228 (RA 15:23.2), λ 249 (RA 15:47.6), λ 316 (RA 17:0.4), λ ? (RA 17:6.4), λ 320 (RA 17:12.2), λ 342 (RA 17:53.3). All examples are located in the southern celestial hemisphere. The 'Lambda' catalogue is related to T.J.J.See's catalogue of double stars. * LAMOST - Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (Guo Shoujing Telescope) * Latham - (for example: Latham 1 at 13:10:50 / +30:28:36) * Latysev - (open star clusters) * Lau - H.E.Lau (double stars) * LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae * Lbz - P.Labitzke (double stars) * LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae * LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue * LEDA —

Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (LEDA) was a database of galaxies, created in 1983 at the Lyon Observatory. Each galaxy had a number assigned to it, which is now known as its PGC number. The Principal Galaxies Catalogue The Catalogue of ...

* Lederman - (telescopic asterisms) * Le Gentil - (for example: Le Gentil 3 in Cygnus, at 21:08 / +51°40') (dark nebula) * Leon -

Frederick C. Leonard Frederick Charles Leonard (March 12, 1896 – June 23, 1960) was an American astronomer. As a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, he conducted extensive research on double stars and meteorites, largely shaping the univers ...

(double stars) * Lewis - Thomas Lewis (double stars) * LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue * LG11 — Lépine & Gaidos 2011, bright M dwarfs * LGG -

Lyons Groups of Galaxies Lyons Groups of Galaxies (or LGG) is an astronomical catalog of nearby groups of galaxies complete to a limiting apparent magnitude B0=14.0 with a recession velocity smaller than 5,500 km/s. The catalogue was obtained from the Lyon-Meudon Ext ...

* LGS - (for example: dwarf galaxy LGS 3 in Pisces, also known as the

Pisces Dwarf The Pisces Dwarf, also known as Pisces I, is an irregular dwarf galaxy that is part of the Local Group. The galaxy, taking its name from the constellation Pisces where it appears, is suspected of being a satellite galaxy of the Triangulum Gal ...

) * LHA - Lamont-Hussey Alpha * LHS —

Luyten Half-Second catalogue A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years ...

* Liller (globular star clusters) (for example:

Liller 1 Liller 1 is a globular cluster in the constellation Scorpius, discovered by the American astronomer William Liller in 1977. It is close to the centre of the Milky Way in its galactic bulge, only 2,600 light-years (800 pc) from the centre. Liller 1 ...

in Scorpius) * Lo - Lars Olof Loden (open star clusters) * Lo - Longmore * Loiano - (for example: Loiano 1 at 19:58:21 / +32:32:42) * Lorenzin - (telescopic asterisms) * LoTr - Longmore-Tritton (planetary nebulae) * LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey * LPM —

Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, ...

* LPO - La Plata Observatory, Argentina * LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below * LS - Lensed Star (LS 1 = 'Icarus' in Leo) (see

MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1, also known as Icarus,Other names include ''LS1'', ''MACS J1149 LS1'', ''MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1 (LS1)'' and ''MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1'' is a blue supergiant star observed through a gravitational lens. It is the ...

) * LSA - Lundstrom-Stenholm-Acker (planetary nebulae) * LSN — Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way * LSPM —

LSPM catalog Ambri Airport, french: Aéroport de Ambri, it, Aeroporto di Ambrì ( :ICAO: LSPM) is a Swiss general aviation airport. It located near the village of Ambrì, in the municipality of Quinto, canton of Ticino. Ambri serves the surrounding area a ...

- Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog * LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue * LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way * LTT —

Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, ...

* Luginbuhl-Skiff - (for example: Luginbuhl-Skiff 1 at 6:14:48 / +12:52:24) * Luhman - (for example:

Luhman 16 Luhman 16 (WISE 1049−5319, WISE J104915.57−531906.1) is a binary brown-dwarf system in the southern constellation Vela at a distance of approximately from the Sun. These are the closest-known brown dwarfs and the closest syst ...

in Vela) * Luy - W.J.Luyten (double stars) * Lv - Francis Preserved Leavenworth (double stars) * Ly - Lynga (open star clusters)

M

* M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (

Messier object The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his ''Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles'' (''Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters''). Because Messier was only int ...

) * M - Minkowski (planetary nebulae) * Ma - J.H.Madler (double stars) * Mac - Maclear (double stars) * MACS - Massive Cluster Survey * MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events (

Massive Compact Halo Object A massive astrophysical compact halo object (MACHO) is a kind of astronomical body that might explain the apparent presence of dark matter in galaxy halos. A MACHO is a body that emits little or no radiation and drifts through interstellar space ...

) ** MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing ** MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing * Maffei - Paolo Maffei (for example: galaxies

Maffei 1 Maffei 1 is a massive elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. Once believed to be a member of the Local Group of galaxies, it is now known to belong to a separate group, the IC 342/Maffei Group. It was named after Paolo Maffei, who ...

and

Maffei 2 Maffei 2 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Maffei 2 and Maffei 1 were both discovered by Paolo Maffei in 1968 from their infrared emission. Maffei 2 lies in the Zone of Avoidan ...

in Cassiopeia) * Mailyan - (for example: Mailyan 44, aka Holmberg I / DDO 63 / UGC 5139, at 9h 40.5m / +71° 11' in Ursa Major) * Malin - David Malin (for example: the largest galaxy known;

Malin 1 __NOTOC__ Malin 1 is a giant low surface brightness (LSB) spiral galaxy. It is located away in the constellation Coma Berenices, near the North Galactic Pole. , it is the largest known spiral galaxy, with an approximate diameter of , thus ove ...

in Coma Berenices) * Mamajek (open star clusters) (for example: Mamajek 1 at 8:42:06 / -79:01:38) * Markov (telescopic asterisms) (for example: Markov 1 in Hercules) * MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image * Mayall -

Nicholas Mayall Nicholas Ulrich Mayall (May 9, 1906 – January 5, 1993) was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Mayall worked at the Lick Observatory, where he remained from 1934 to 1 ...

(for example: globular star cluster

Mayall II Mayall II, also known as NGC-224-G1, SKHB 1, GSC 2788:2139, HBK 0-1, M31GC J003247+393440 or Andromeda's Cluster, is a globular cluster orbiting M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. It is located from the Andromeda Galaxy's galactic core, and is the brig ...

orbiting Messier 31, the Andromeda galaxy) * Mayer (open star clusters) * McC —

McCormick Observatory Catalog McCormick may refer to: Business * McCormick & Company, an American food company specializing in spices and flavorings * McCormick & Schmick's, an American restaurant chain specializing in seafood * McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, a manufact ...

* MCG —

Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies The Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies (MCG) or Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik, is a Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies compiled by Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov and V. P. Arkhipova. It is based on scrutiny of prints of the Palomar Sky Survey ...

* MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford * Me - Merrill (planetary nebulae) * Mel - Melotte Catalogue of open star clusters (

Philibert Jacques Melotte Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was ...

) * Mercer (for example: globular star cluster

Mercer 3 Mercer 3, also known as GLIMPSE-C02, is a heavily obscured globular cluster embedded in the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2008 in the data obtained by 2MASS and Spitzer Space Telescope, GLIMPSE infrared surveys, and independe ...

in Scutum) * MGC (globular star clusters) (for example:

MGC1 MGC1 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Pisces. It lies about 650,000 light-years (about 200 kpc) away from the Andromeda Galaxy (M 31)'s galactic center. MGC1 is considered as one of the most isolated globular clusters in the Local ...

in Pisces) * Mh - O.M.Mitchel (double stars) * Mil - J.A.Miller (double stars) * Miller (open star clusters) (for example: Miller 1 at 9:25:42 / -53:14:00) * Milb - W.Milburn (double stars) * MlbO - Melbourne Observatory, Australia (double stars) * Mlf - Frank Muller (double stars) * Mlr - Paul Muller (double stars) * Moffat (open star clusters) (for example: Moffat 1 at 16:01:30 / -54:07:00) * Moitinho (open star clusters) (for example: Moitinho 1 at 8:19:17 / -45:12:30) * MPC —

Minor Planet Circular The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Function ...

s contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets * Mrk - Benjamin "Benik" Egishevitch Markarian (open star clusters) * MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources * Muzzio (open star clusters) (for example: Muzzio 1 at 8:57:12 / -47:46:00) * MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, ''not in SIMBAD yet'' * MWP - Motch-Werner-Pakull (planetary nebulae) * MyCn - Mayall-Cannon (planetary nebulae) * Mz - Menzel (planetary nebulae)

N

* N - (for example: N 164 nebula in Dorado) * Na - Nassau (planetary nebulae) * Naillon - (telescopic asterisms) (source: Bruno Alessi's list) * N30 —

Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30 Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30 is the 1952 auxiliary star catalogue created by Herbert Rollo Morgan to address proper motion inaccuracies in 19th century observations by converting List of astronomical catalogues, co ...

* Neckerman (telescopic asterisms) (for example: Neckerman 1, aka Kemble 2 "Little Cassiopeia"). * NED -

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) is an online astronomical database for astronomers that collates and cross-correlates astronomical information on extragalactic objects (galaxies, quasars, radio, x-ray and infrared sources, etc.). NED was ...

* Negueruela - (Ignacio Negueruela) * NeVe - Neckel-Vehrenberg (planetary nebulae) * New - ? (galaxies) ** New 1 in Cetus (source: The Deep-Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.0, Cragin-Lucyk-Rappaport, chart 262). ** New 5 in Sagittarius (thus mentioned on chart 22 of Wil Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0, mentioned as ESO 285-G7 on charts 411 and 412 in Uranometria 2000.0 Volume 2, 1987 edition). ** New 6 in Indus (chart 23 in Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0, chart 413 in the 1987 edition of Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 2) (as ESO 287-G13) * NGC —

New General Catalogue The ''New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars'' (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and ...

* NGTS -

Next-Generation Transit Survey The Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is a ground-based robotic search for exoplanets. The facility is located at Paranal Observatory in the Atacama desert in northern Chile, about 2 km from ESO's Very Large Telescope and 0.5 km ...

(extrasolar planets) * NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog * NLTT —

New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, ...

* NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD

* NStars — Nearby Stars Database * NSV —

New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars The ''New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars'' (NSV) is a star catalogue A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different ...

* NZO - New Zealand Observatory (double stars)

O

* O - O'Neal (open star clusters) * OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogu

* OGLE —

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) is a Polish astronomical project based at the University of Warsaw that runs a long-term variability sky survey (1992–present). The main goals are the detection and classification of variable ...

* Ol -

Charles Pollard Olivier Charles Pollard Olivier (April 10, 1884 – August 14, 1975) was an American astronomer, notable for his contributions to the study of meteors, double stars and variable stars. Biography Charles grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he li ...

(double stars) * Opik - Ernst J. Opik (double stars) * OSC — Open Supernova Catalo

* OΣ - Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue, 1843 (double stars) * OΣΣ - Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue Supplement, 1843 (double stars) * OSS —

Ohio Sky Survey The Ohio Sky Survey was an astronomical survey of extragalactic radio sources. Data were taken between 1965 and 1971 using the Big Ear radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory (OSURO), also known as the "Big Ear Radio Observ ...

* OTC — Open TDE Catalo

* OTS - Oasa-Tamura-Sugitani * Ou - Nicolas Outters (for example: Ou 4, the 'Squid Nebula' in Cepheus) (see APOD - Astronomy Picture Of the Day - July 18, 2014).

P

* P - Perrine (double stars) * PAL — Palomar Globular Clusters (15 globular clusters discovered on the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates) * Par - Parkhurst (double stars) * PB - Peimbert-Batiz (planetary nebulae) * PC - Peimbert-Costero (planetary nebulae) * Pe - Perek (planetary nebulae) * Perr - Perrotin (double stars) * Perry - Perry (double stars) * PG - Palomar-Green (catalogue of ultraviolet excess stellar objects) * PGC —

Principal Galaxies Catalogue The Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC) is an astronomical catalog published in 1989 that lists B1950 and J2000 equatorial coordinates and cross-identifications for 73,197 galaxies. It is based on the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (LEDA), ...

* PH - Planet Hunters * PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue * Pi - Pismis (

Paris Pişmiş Marie Paris Pişmiş de Recillas ( hy, Բարիզ Փիշմիշ, 30 January 1911 – 1 August 1999) was an Armenian-Mexican astronomer. Pişmiş was born Mari Sukiasian ( hy, Մարի Սուքիասեան) in 1911, in Ortaköy, Istanbul. She comp ...

, 1911-1999) (catalogue of 22 open star clusters and 2 globular star clusters) * PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae ( Perek-

Kohoutek Kohoutek is a Czech surname. Kohoutek may refer to: * Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011), Czech composer and music theorist * Luboš Kohoutek (born 1935), Czech astronomer * "Kohoutek," a song by Journey from the album ''Journey'' * "Kohoutek", a song ...

) * PKS -

Parkes Catalogue of Radio Sources The Parkes Catalogue of Radio Sources, also known as the Parkes Southern Radio Source Catalog, consists of 8264 astronomical radio sources, mostly south of declination +27. The catalogue was mostly compiled by John Bolton and his colleagues for 20 ...

* Platais - Imants Platais' catalogue of open star clusters * Plq - Paloque (double stars) * PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins,

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) * PM - Preite Martinez (planetary nebulae) * PMC —

Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog The Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle (PMC) is a meridian circle that observes and records the positions of stars and planets, which are then reported in the PMC catalogs. Meridian circle The Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle is a fully auto ...

* PN — See PNG * PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae * Pol - Pollock (double stars) * Pou - Pourteau (double stars) * PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues * Pri - Pritchett (double stars) * PrO - Perth Observatory, Australia (double stars) * Prz - Przbyllok (double stars) * Ps - Francis G. Pease (planetary nebulae) (for example:

Pease 1 Pease 1 is a planetary nebula located within the globular cluster M15 33,600 light years A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a large unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equivalent to about 9.46 tri ...

in the globular cluster Messier 15, Pegasus) * PSR - Pulsating Source of Radio (pulsars) * PTFO — Palomar Transient Factory * Ptt - Pettit (double stars) * Pu - Purgathofer (planetary nebulae) * PuWe - Purgathofer-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * Pz - Piazzi (double stars)

Q

* Q (?) - (for example: galaxy Q 6188 at 0:48.6 / -12:44 in Cetus) (mentioned on charts 261 / 262 in Uranometria 2000.0 Volume 2, 1987 edition) (according to Wolfgang Steinicke and Richard Jakiel of the book ''Galaxies and How to Observe Them'', this galaxy (Q 6188) is also catalogued as Mrk 960 and PGC 2845) * QES - QATAR Exoplanet Survey * QSO —

Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects Revise or revised may refer to: Bibles * Revised Version of the King James Bible ** New Revised Standard Version of the King James Bible Government and law * Revised Penal Code of the Philippines * Revised Statutes of the United States Other us ...

* QZM - (for example: QZM 2 at galactic coordinates 78.12 / +3.63) (J2000 - 20:14:26 / +41°13'28") (QZM 2 = Froebrich 116, = SUH 151)

R

* R - Radcliffe Observatory (RMC - Radcliffe Observatory Magellanic Clouds Catalogue) * R - Rose (Rose Catalogue of Southern Clusters of Galaxies) * R - H.C.Russell (double stars) * Raab (open star clusters) * RAFGL - Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (four color infrared sky survey) * Raymond - (telescopic asterisms) * RBC - Revised Bologna Catalogue (for example: globular cluster RBC EXT8 in Messier 31; the Andromeda galaxy) * RC —

Reference Catalogue Reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to ''refer to'' the second object. It is called a '' name'' ...

** RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition ** RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition * RCW — Rodgers-Campbell-Whiteoak A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way * RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby Stars * Reiland - (for example: open star cluster Reiland 1 at 23:04:45 / +60°04'40") * Reinmuth - (galaxies) (for example: Reinmuth 80 in Virgo) (NGC 4517A) * Renou (telescopic asterisms) * Reyle-Robin - (open star clusters, I.R.) * Richaud - Jean Richaud, 1633-93 (double stars) * Riddle - (open star clusters / telescopic asterisms) * Rmk - C.L.C.Rumker (double stars) * RMM - (for example: open star cluster RMM 1 at 12:12:20 / -63°15'31") * RNGC —

Revised New General Catalogue The ''New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars'' (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and em ...

* Ro - Curt Roslund (open star clusters) * Roberts - (protoplanetary nebulae) * Roe - Edward Drake Roe, 1859-1929 (double stars) * Roman-Lopes - (open star clusters, I.R.) * Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars * ROT —

Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars is the name for catalogue of projected stellar rotation, published in 1982 by Uesugi, A. and Fukuda, I. Downloadable catalogs of the projected stellar rotation Standard source - Uesugi&Fukuda catal ...

* RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue * RSGC - Red Super Giant Cluster (for example: RSGC 3 at 18:45:20 / -3°24'43") * RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Richard Alfred Rossiter, 1886-1977) * Ru - Jaroslav Ruprecht (open star clusters) * RX —

ROSAT ROSAT (short for Röntgensatellit; in German X-rays are called Röntgenstrahlen, in honour of Wilhelm Röntgen) was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by West Germany, the United Kingdom and the Uni ...

observations

S

* S - James South, 1785-1867 (double stars) * Sa - Sanduleak (planetary nebulae) * SA - Sandqvist (dark nebulae) (for example: Sandqvist 169 near Alpha Centauri, see APOD - Astronomy Picture Of the Day, April 13, 2019) * SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago * Saloranta - Jaakko Saloranta (telescopic asterisms) * SAO —

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue, created by Smithsonian Institution, a research institute. It was published by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1966 and contains 258,997 stars. ...

* Saurer - (for example: the open star cluster Saurer 1 at 7:18:18 / +1°53'12") * SaWe - Sanduleak-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * SAX - Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X (Beppo SAX satellite) * SC —

Slough catalogue Slough () is a town and unparished area in the Borough of Slough, unitary authority of the same name in Berkshire, England, bordering west London. It lies in the Thames Valley, west of central London and north-east of Reading, Berkshire, Re ...

("Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, made at Slough, with a Twenty-Feet Reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833" by John Herschel; 2306 entries) * Schb - J.M.Schaeberle (double stars) * Schj - H.C.F.C.Schjellerup (double stars) * Schoenberg - (for example: Schoenberg 205-6 at 6:37.1 / +10°21') * Schuster - (for example: open star cluster Schuster 1 at 10:04:39 / -55:51:29) * SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue. * Scott - J.L.Scott (double stars) * SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS * SDSS —

Sloan Digital Sky Survey The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project began in 2000 a ...

** 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. * Se - Father Angelo Secchi (double stars) * Se - Sersic (selected list of peculiar galaxies and groups of galaxies) * See - T.J.J.See (

Thomas Jefferson Jackson See Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) See (February 19, 1866 – July 4, 1962) was an American astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by plagiar ...

, 1866-1962) (double stars) (related to the 'Lambda' catalogue which is mentioned in T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars, pages 285-319: Index of Double Stars, Epoch 2000). * SEGUE - Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (for example: galaxies

Segue 1 Segue 1 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy or globular cluster situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is located at a distance of about 23 kpc (about 75,000 light years) from the Sun and moves aw ...

in Leo, Segue 2 in Aries, and

Segue 3 Segue 3 is a faint star cluster of the Milky Way galaxy discovered in 2010 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is located in the Pegasus constellation at the distance of about 17 kpc from the Sun and moves away from it wit ...

in Pegasus) * Sei - J.Scheiner (double stars) * SGR - Soft Gamma Repeater * Sh —

Sharpless catalog The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 H II regions (emission nebulae) intended to be comprehensive north of declination −27°. (It does include some nebulae south of that declination as well.) The first edition was published in 1953 with 14 ...

(Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2(1959)) * Sh - Sher (open star clusters) (for example: Sher 1 at 11:01:04 / -60:14:00) * S, h - James South / John Herschel (joint 1824 catalogue of double stars) * Shk - Romela Karapet Shakhbazian (compact groups of galaxies) (for example: Shakhbazian 1 (the 'Russian Cluster') in Ursa Major, at 10:54.8 / +40°28') * Shorlin - (for example: open star cluster Shorlin 1 at 11:05:46 / -61:13:48) * Simeis - (for example: supernova remnant Simeis 147 / Sh2-240 in Taurus, also known as the ' Spaghetti Nebula') * SIMP —

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* Sinnott - (multiple star systems) * SIPS —

Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, M ...

* Sk - Skinner (double stars) * SL - Sandqvist-Lindroos (dark nebulae) * Slr - R.P.Sellors (double stars) * Smart - W.M.Smart (double stars) * Smyth - W.H.Smyth (1788-1865) (double stars) * Sn - Shane (planetary nebulae) * Sp - G.V.Schiaparelli (double stars) * Sp - Shapley (planetary nebulae) * Spano - (telescopic asterisms) * SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars * SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue * SPOCS —

Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets the electromagnetic spectrum, electromagnetic spectra that result from the interaction between Electromagnetism, electromagnetic radiation and matter as a function of the wavelengt ...

* SRS —

Southern Reference Star Catalog Southern may refer to: Businesses * China Southern Airlines, airline based in Guangzhou, China * Southern Airways, defunct US airline * Southern Air, air cargo transportation company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US * Southern Airways Express, M ...

* SS - Sadler and Sharp (survey of E-type and S0-type galaxies) * SS - Sanduleak-Stephenson (for example: SS 433 in Aquila) * SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey * SSTc2d —

Spitzer Space Telescope The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was an infrared space telescope launched in 2003. Operations ended on 30 January 2020. Spitzer was the third space telescope dedicated to infrared astronomy, f ...

c2d Legacy Source * SSTDUSTG — DUSTiNGS (Dust in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer) * St - Carl L. Stearns (double stars) * Ste - Stephenson (open star clusters) * Stein - Johan Stein (double stars) * Steine - (open star clusters) * STF (Σ) — Struve the Father double stars ** ΣI - W.Struve, First Supplement (double stars) ** ΣII - W.Struve, Second Supplement (double stars) * St / Stock — Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in, Stock 3 to 23 in, Stock 24 in Alter, G., B. Balazs, and J. Ruprecht. 1970. ''Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations''. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiado) * Stone - Ormond Stone (double stars) * Streicher - (telescopic asterisms) * Stromlo - (for example: Stromlo 2 in Monoceros and Canis Major, at IC 2177; the 'Eagle Nebula') * StWr - Stock-Wroblewski (planetary nebulae) * Sw - Swift (double stars) * SWEEPS - Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search * Swift (for example: Swift J1745-26 in Sagittarius) (stellar-mass black hole) * SwSt - Swings-Struve (planetary nebulae) * SyO - Sydney Observatory, Australia (double stars)

T

* Ta — Tarrant (double stars) * TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog * Tc — Thackeray (planetary nebulae) * TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes ( TD1 satellite) * Terzan — Agop Terzan Catalogue of Globular Star Clusters (11 objects) * THA — TH-alpha catalogue of emission line stars in the Eta Carinae nebula region * TIC —

TESS Tess or TESS may refer to: Music * Tess (band), a Spanish pop band active from 2000 to 2005 * TESS (musician), a UK musician Film and theatre * ''Tess'' (1979 film), a 1979 film adaptation of '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' * ''Tess'' (2016 film) ...

Input Catalog * TIC — Tycho Input Catalog * TOI —

Object of Interest * Tom — Tombaugh (open star clusters) * Ton —

Tonantzintla Catalogue Tonantzintla Observatory ( es, Observatorio de Tonantzintla, link=no) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of San Andrés Cholula in the Mexican state of Puebla. It consists of two adjacent facilities: the National Astrop ...

(globular star clusters) * TPK — Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger (asterisms) * TRAPPIST — Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope * TrES —

Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey The Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, or ''TrES'', used three 4-inch (10 cm) telescopes located at Lowell Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and Teide Observatory to locate exoplanets. It was made using the network of small, relatively inexpe ...

** TrES-And0 —

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of planetary candidate in the Andromeda constellation * TVLM — Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue * TYC —

Tycho Catalogue ''Hipparcos'' was a scientific satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in 1989 and operated until 1993. It was the first space experiment devoted to precision astrometry, the accurate measurement of the positions of celestial obj ...

** TYC2 —

Tycho-2 Catalogue The Tycho-2 Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of more than 2.5 million of the brightest stars. Catalogue The astrometric reference catalogue contain positions, proper motions, and two-color photometric data for 2,539,913 of the brightes ...

* Tr / Trumpler —

Robert Julius Trumpler Robert Julius Trumpler (until 1915 Robert Trümpler, born October 2, 1886 in Zürich, Switzerland; died September 10, 1956 in Berkeley, United States) was a Swiss-American astronomer. Career After initial schooling, Trumpler entered the Universit ...

's open cluster list, published in ''Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters'' * Tu — Tucker (double stars)

U

* UBV —

Photoelectric Catalogue The UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue, or UBV M, is the star brightness catalogue that complies to the UBV photometric system developed by astronomer Harold Johnson (astronomer), Harold Johnson. Evolution of the UBV Photoelectric Photometry ...

, magnitude and color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968) * UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987) * UCAC —

USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog The USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC) is an astrometric star catalog of the United States Naval Observatory United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeep ...

(UCAC1, UCAC2, UCAC3, UCAC4 & UCAC5) * UGC —

Uppsala General Catalogue The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) is a catalogue of 12,921 galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere. It was first published in 1973. The catalogue includes essentially all galaxies north of declination -02°30' and to a limiting ...

(galaxies) * UGCA - Uppsala Selected non-UGC Galaxies * UKS - United Kingdom Schmidt (globular star clusters) * ULAS - UKIDDS Large Area Survey (quasars) * Up - Upgren (open star clusters) (only one object in this catalogue? Upgren 1) (probably Arthur R. Upgren, 1933-2017) * Up - Upton (double stars) * USNO —

US Naval Observatory United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is a scientific and military facility that produces geopositioning, navigation and timekeeping data for the United States Navy and the United States Department of Defense. Established in 1830 as the Depo ...

** 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 In 1961 the astronomer George Van Biesbroeck published a catalog of low luminosity stars discovered using the Otto Struve refractor telescope of the McDonald Observatory in Texas. Survey and catalog This survey is similar to earlier dim star su ...

, variant, "VB" * VBRC (?) * VCC —

Virgo Cluster Catalog Virgo may refer to: *Virgo (astrology), the sixth astrological sign of the zodiac *Virgo (constellation), a constellation *Virgo Cluster, a cluster of galaxies in the constellation Virgo *Virgo Stellar Stream, remains of a dwarf galaxy *Virgo Supe ...

* Vd - Vandervort (planetary nebulae) * VdB —

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(catalogue of

reflection nebula Reflection or reflexion may refer to: Science and technology * Reflection (physics), a common wave phenomenon ** Specular reflection, reflection from a smooth surface *** Mirror image, a reflection in a mirror or in water ** Signal reflection, in s ...

e) * VdB-H - Van den Bergh-Herbst (open star clusters) * VdB-Ha - Van den Bergh-Hagen (open star clusters) * VFTS - VLT Flames Tarantula Survey * Vou - J.G.E.G. Voute (double stars) * VPHAS+ The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge * VV —

Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies are those included in the Atlas and Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies, by B.A. Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov, R.I. Noskova and V.P. Arkhipova. It was published by the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Science ...

(Boris Aleksandrovich Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov)¨ * VVV Survey — Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (Latin for

Milky Way The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes our Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye ...

) * VVV-CL - (open star clusters, I.R.) * Vy - Vyssotsky (planetary nebulae) (Alexander Vyssotsky)

W

* W - Radiosource ( Westerhout) * W20 —

Washington 20 Catalog Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal government of the United States ** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...

* Wa / Ward - I.W.Ward (double stars) * Wa - Waterloo (open star clusters) * WASP —

Wide Angle Search for Planets WASP or Wide Angle Search for Planets is an international consortium of several academic organisations performing an ultra-wide angle search for exoplanets using transit photometry. The array of robotic telescopes aims to survey the entire sky, s ...

* WASP0-TR —

Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit WIDE or Wide may refer to: *Wide (cricket) *Wide and narrow data, terms used to describe two different presentations for tabular data *WIDE Project, Widely Integrated Distributed Environment *Wide-angle Infinity Display Equipment *WIDE-LP, a radio ...

* WDS —

Washington Double Star Catalog The Washington Double Star Catalog, or WDS, is a catalog of double stars, maintained at the United States Naval Observatory. The catalog contains positions, magnitudes, proper motions and spectral types and has entries for (as of June 2017) 141,7 ...

* We - Weinberger (planetary nebulae) (Ronald Weinberger) * We - Westerlund (open star clusters) (Bengt Westerlund, 1921-2008) * Webb - T.W.Webb (double stars) * WeDe - Weinberger-Dengle (planetary nebulae) * Weisse - M.Weisse (double stars) * WeSa - Weinberger-Sabbadin (planetary nebulae) * Wg - R.W.Wrigley (double stars) * Whiting - Alan B. Whiting (globular star clusters) (for example: Whiting 1 at 2h 02m / -3° 15' in Cetus) * WhMe - Whitelock-Menzies * Willman - Beth Willman (for example: ultra low-luminosity dwarf galaxy or star cluster

Willman 1 Willman 1 is an ultra low-luminosity dwarf galaxy or a star cluster. Willman 1 was discovered in 2004. It is Galaxies named after people, named after Beth Willman of Haverford College, the lead author of a study based on the Sloan Digital Sky Su ...

in Ursa Major) * Wils - R.H.Wilson, jr. (double stars) * Win - Winlock (double stars) * Wirtz - Carl Wirtz (double stars) * WISE — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer * WISEA — AllWISE Source Catalog * WISEP — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Preliminary Release Source Catalog * WNC / Winn —

Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars is a list of seven "new" double stars published by German Astronomer August Winnecke in Astronomische Nachrichten in 1869. Winnecke later noted that three of the double stars he catalogued had been discovered earl ...

* WNO - Washington Observations (double stars) (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.) * Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue * Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars (

Wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

) * Worley - Charles E. Worley (double stars) * WR —

Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars Catalog or catalogue may refer to: *Cataloging **'emmy on the 'og **in science and technology ***Library catalog, a catalog of books and other media ****Union catalog, a combined library catalog describing the collections of a number of libraries ...

(Charles Wolf / Georges Rayet)

X

* XBS —

XMM-Newton ''XMM-Newton'', also known as the High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, is an X-ray space observatory launched by the European Space Agency in December 1999 on an Ariane 5 rocket. It is the second cornerst ...

, Bright Source * XBSS —

Bright Serendipitous Survey * XEST —

Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular ** XEST-OM — XEST,

Optical Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

/ UV Monitor * XO - XO-Project (

XO Telescope The XO Telescope is an astronomical telescope located on the 3,054 m (10,000 foot) summit of Haleakala on Maui, Hawaii. It consists of two 200-millimeter telephoto camera lenses, and resembles binoculars in shape. It is used by the XO Project ...

) (search for extrasolar planets) * XTE —

X-ray An X-ray, or, much less commonly, X-radiation, is a penetrating form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation. Most X-rays have a wavelength ranging from 10 picometers to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30&nb ...

Timing Explorer * XZ - XZ Catalogue of Zodiacal Stars (Richard Schmidt / Tom Van Flandern, 1977, U.S. Naval Observatory)

Y

* Y - Young (double stars) * YBS - Yale Bright Star Catalogue * YZ —

Yale Observatory Zone Catalog The Yale Observatory Zone Catalog a series of star catalogs published by the Yale University Observatory for 1939 to 1983, containing around 400,000 records. A total of 25 catalogs were published, so all references to stars include both the catalog ...

Z

*Z —

Fritz Zwicky Fritz Zwicky (; ; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and ...

, ''Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies'' * ZC - Robertson's Zodiacal Catalogue (James Robertson's catalogue of 3539 zodiacal stars brighter than 9th magnitude) *

Zij A zij ( fa, زيج, zīj) is an Islamic astronomical book that tabulates parameters used for astronomical calculations of the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets. Etymology The name ''zij'' is derived from the Middle Persian term ' ...

— Islamic astronomical books that tabulates parameters used for astronomical calculations of the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets **

Book of Fixed Stars The ''Book of Fixed Stars'' ( ar, كتاب صور الكواكب ', literally ''The Book of the Shapes of Stars'') is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the translation movement in the 9th cent ...

Tables of Toledo The ''Toledan Tables'', or ''Tables of Toledo'', were astronomical tables which were used to predict the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars. They were a collection of mathematic tables that describe different aspec ...

** Zij-i Ilkhani **

Zij-i-Sultani ''Zīj-i Sulṭānī'' ( fa, زیجِ سلطانی) is a Zij astronomical table and star catalogue that was published by Ulugh Beg in 1438–1439. It was the joint product of the work of a group of Muslim astronomers working under the patronage o ...

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Astronomical catalogues An astronomical catalog or 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. The oldest and largest are star c ...