The Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies (MCG) or Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik, is a Russian catalogue of 30,642
galaxies
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System ...
compiled by
Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov
Boris Aleksandrovich Vorontsov-Velyaminov (russian: Борис Александрович Воронцов-Вельяминов; February 14, 1904 – January 27, 1994) was a Russian astrophysicist. His name is sometimes given as Vorontsov-Ve ...
and
V. P. Arkhipova. It is based on scrutiny of prints of the
Palomar Sky Survey plates, and putatively complete to a
photographic magnitude of 15. Including galaxies to magnitude 16 would have resulted in an unmanageably large dataset.
Publication
The catalogue was published in five parts (chapters) between 1962 and 1974, the final chapter including a certain number of galaxies with a photographic magnitude above 15.
MCG - Morphological Galaxy Catalog
HEASARC
Gallery
File:The loneliest of galaxies.jpg, MCG+01-02-015
References
Astronomical catalogues of galaxies
Astronomy in the Soviet Union
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