List of astronomical catalogues
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An astronomical catalog
is a list or tabulation of astronomical object
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 of some kind.
Astronomical catalog
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...
is a list or tabulation of astronomical object
Astronomical object
Astronomical objects or celestial objects are naturally occurring physical entities, associations or structures that current science has demonstrated to exist in the observable universe. The term astronomical object is sometimes used interchangeably with astronomical body...
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 of some kind.
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- 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0
- 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel VAriel VAriel 5 was a joint British and American space observatory dedicated to observing the sky in the X-ray band. It was launched on October 15, 1974 from the San Marco platform in the Indian Ocean and operated until 1980. It was the penultimate satellite to be launched as part of the Ariel programme...
satellite - 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey
- 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations
- 1RXS — ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog
- 1SWASP — SuperWASPSuperWASPSuperWASP is an international academic organisation performing an ultra-wide angle search for transiting extrasolar planets with the aim of covering the entire sky down to ~15th magnitude.-Equipment:...
- 2A — see 1A
- 2E — The Einstein ObservatoryEinstein ObservatoryEinstein Observatory was the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space and the second of NASA's three High Energy Astrophysical Observatories...
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
- 3A — see 1A
- 4C — Fourth Cambridge SurveyFourth Cambridge SurveyThe Fourth Cambridge Survey 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 and 1967 , by the Radio Astronomy Group of the University of Cambridge...
of celestial radio sources - 8pc — 8 parsecParsecThe parsec is a unit of length used in astronomy. It is about 3.26 light-years, or just under 31 trillion kilometres ....
listing, all stars within 8 parsec
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- Abell — Abell catalogueAbell catalogueThe Abell catalog of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift z 18.0*Galactic-Latitude: Areas of the sky in the neighbourhood of the Milky Way were excluded from the study because the density of stars in those fields—not to mention...
- AC — Astrographic Catalogue
- ADS — Aitken Double Star CatalogueAitken Double Star CatalogueThe 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 contains measurements of 17,180 double stars north of...
- AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft KatalogAstronomische Gesellschaft KatalogThe Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog 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 magnitude....
- ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars
- AN — Astronomische NachrichtenAstronomische NachrichtenAstronomische Nachrichten , one of the first international journals in the field of astronomy, was founded in 1821 by the German astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher. It claims to be the oldest astronomical journal in the world that is still being published...
- APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
- ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001)
B
- B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
- BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
- BAY — UranometriaUranometriaUranometria is the short title of a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer.It was published in Augsburg, Germany, in 1603 by Christophorus Mangus under the full title Uranometria : omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa. This translates to...
(Bayer designationBayer designationA Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name...
) - BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
- BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- BDS — Burnham Double Star CatalogueBurnham Double Star CatalogueThe Burnham Double Star Catalogue 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 Within 121° of the North Pole...
- BEN — Jack Bennett Catalog
- BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
- BRI — Bj, R, I survey
C
- C — Caldwell catalogueCaldwell catalogueThe Caldwell Catalogue is an astronomical catalog of 109 bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled by Sir Patrick Caldwell-Moore, better known as Patrick Moore, as a complement to the Messier Catalogue.The Messier Catalogue is used...
- CCDM — Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple StarsCatalog of Components of Double and Multiple StarsThe 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 catalogue of stars for the Hipparcos mission...
- CCO — Catalogue of Cometary Orbits
- CCS — General Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars
- CCS2 — General Catalog of S Stars, second edition
- CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
- CDIMP — Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
- CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes
- CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
- CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
- CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
- Col — Collinder catalogCollinder catalogIn astronomy, the Collinder catalog is a catalog of 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 distribution. Catalog objects may be denoted as Col + catalog...
- CoRoT — CoRoT CatalogueCorotCorot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...
- CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT CatalogueCorotCorot may refer to:* Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French landscape painter * COROT, a space mission with the dual aims of finding extrasolar planets and performing asteroseismology* COROT-7, a dwarf star in the Monoceros constellation...
- CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
- CPC — Cape Photographic CatalogueCape Photographic CatalogueThe Cape Photographic Catalogue is a star catalog containing 68,467 stars in the Southern Hemisphere whose declinations are either between −30° and −40° or between −52° and −90°. It contains positions, proper motions, magnitudes, and spectral types, and was published by the Cape Observatory...
- CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- CSI — Catalog of Stellar IdentificationsCatalog of Stellar IdentificationsThe Catalog of Stellar Identifications is a star catalog which was constructed to facilitate cross-referencing between different star catalogs...
- CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
- CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars
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- DA — Dominion ObservatoryDominion ObservatoryThe Dominion Observatory was an astronomical observatory in Ottawa, Canada 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 Interior's need for the precise coordinates and timekeeping...
List A - DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds
- DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey
- DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
- DM — DurchmusterungDurchmusterungIn astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung , is the usual name for three comprehensive astrometric star catalogues of the whole sky, processed by the Bonn Observatory from 1859 to 1903....
- BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
- CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- DO — Dearborn ObservatoryDearborn ObservatoryThe Dearborn Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University. The observatory was originally constructed in 1888...
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- FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
- FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
- FK5 — Fifth Fundamental CatalogueFifth Fundamental CatalogueThe Catalogue of Fundamental Stars is a series of six astrometric catalogues of high precision positional data for a small selection of stars to define a celestial reference frame, which is a standard coordinate system for correlation of star positions....
- FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designationFlamsteed designationFlamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters. Each star is assigned a number and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in...
) - FSC — Faint Source Catalogue
G
- G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)
- GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas dwarf)
- GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas red star)
- HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas Hyades)
- GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
- GC (Boss) — Boss general catalogueBoss General CatalogueBoss General Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue containing 33,342 stars. It was compiled by Benjamin Boss and published in 1936 in USA. Its original name was General Catalogue of 33,342 Stars and it superseded the previous Preliminary General Catalogue of 6,188 Stars for the Epoch 1900 of 1910...
of 33342 stars - GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial VelocitiesGeneral Catalogue of Stellar Radial VelocitiesThe 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 velocity measurements were made at Mount Wilson Observatory....
- GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
- GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
- Gl / GJ — Gliese-Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese-Jahreiss catalogue
- GSC — Guide Star CatalogGuide Star CatalogThe Guide Star Catalog is also known as the Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog . It is a star catalog compiled to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targeting off-axis stars. GSC-I contained approximately 20,000,000 stars with apparent magnitudes of 6 to 15. GSC-II contains 945,592,683...
- GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
- GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
- GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
H
- HD — Henry Draper CatalogueHenry Draper CatalogueThe Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension , published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the...
- HCG — Hickson Compact GroupHickson Compact GroupA Hickson Compact Group 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....
- HDE — Henry Draper Extension
- HE — Hamburg/ESO SurveyHamburg/ESO SurveyThe Hamburg/ESO Survey is an astrometric star catalogue published by the University of Hamburg. The catalog contains stars between magnitudes 13 and 18 covering the Southern extragalactic sky.The stated goals of the catalog are...
- Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
- HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
- HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
- HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky SurveyHIPASSThe HI Parkes All Sky Survey was an astronomical survey for neutral atomic hydrogen . Data was taken between 1997 and 2002 using the Parkes Observatory. HIPASS covered 71% of the sky and identified 5317 sources emitting HI's signature wavelength...
- HR — Bright Star CatalogueBright Star CatalogueThe Bright Star Catalogue, also known as the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars or Yale Bright Star Catalogue, is a star catalogue that lists all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter, which is roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth. It is currently available online in its 5th...
(Harvard Revised Catalogue)
I
- IC — Index Catalog
- IC I — Index Catalog I
- IC II — Index Catalog II
- IDS — Index Catalogue of Visual Double StarsIndex Catalogue of Visual Double StarsThe 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...
- IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source
- IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
- IRS — International Reference Star
J
- J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005O&T....61...26T for an article about it)
- JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.
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- KIC — Kepler Input CatalogKepler Input CatalogThe Kepler Input Catalog is a publicly searchable database of roughly 13.2 million targets used for the Kepler Spectral Classification Program and Kepler....
- KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman
- KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object
L
- L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (LuytenWillem Jacob LuytenWillem Jacob Luyten was a Dutch-American astronomer.-Life:Jacob Luyten was born in Semarang, Java, at the time part of the Dutch East Indies. His mother was Cornelia M. Francken and his father Jacob Luyten, a French teacher.At the age of 11 he observed Halley's comet, which started his...
) - Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (LacailleNicolas Louis de LacailleAbbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille was a French astronomer.He is noted for his catalogue of nearly 10,000 southern stars, including 42 nebulous objects. This catalogue, called Coelum Australe Stelliferum, was published posthumously in 1763. It introduced 14 new constellations which have since become...
)- Lac I — Nebulae
- Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters
- Lac III — Nebulous Stars
- LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright NebulaeLynds' Catalogue of Bright NebulaeLynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae is an Astronomical catalogue of bright Nebulae.Objects listed in the catalogue are numbered with the prefix LBN , though, many entries also have other designations, for example, LBN 974, the Orion Nebula is also known as M42 and NGC 1976.Originally compiled in the...
- LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
- LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue
- LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic DatabaseLyon-Meudon Extragalactic DatabaseThe Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database was a database of galaxies. Created in 1983 at the Lyon Observatory, it contained information on more than 60 parameters for about 100,000 galaxies. In 2000, the database was merged with Hypercat and became HyperLeda. It now contains information on over 3...
- LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue
- LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue
- LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey
- LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
- LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below
- LSN — Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way
- LSPM - LSPM catalog - Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog
- LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue
- LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way
- LTT — Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue
M
- M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (Messier objectMessier objectThe Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771. The original motivation of the catalogue was that Messier was a comet hunter, and was frustrated by objects which resembled but were not comets...
) - MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events (Massive Compact Halo ObjectMassive compact halo objectMassive astrophysical compact halo object, or MACHO, is a general name for any kind of astronomical body that might explain the apparent presence of dark matter in galaxy halos. A MACHO is a body composed of normal baryonic matter, which emits little or no radiation and drifts through interstellar...
)- MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
- MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
- McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog
- MCG — Morphological Catalogue of GalaxiesMorphological Catalogue of GalaxiesThe Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies ' or Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik, is a Russian catalogue of 30642 galaxies compiled by Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov and V. P. Arkhipova. It is based on a close scrutiny of prints of the Palomar Sky Survey plates, and putatively complete to a photographic...
- MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford
- MPC — Minor Planet CircularMinor Planet CircularThe Minor Planet Circulars is a scientific journal that is generally published on the date of each full moon by the Minor Planet Center. The Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of minor planets, comets and certain natural satellites...
s contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets - MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources
- MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet
N
- N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30 is the auxiliary star catalog made for the epoch 1950.0.It primary usage is the incorporation of 19th century astronomical data into modern research....
- NGC — New General CatalogueNew General CatalogueThe New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars is a well-known catalogue of deep sky objects in astronomy. It contains 7,840 objects, known as the NGC objects...
- NHICAT — Northern HIPASS CatalogHIPASSThe HI Parkes All Sky Survey was an astronomical survey for neutral atomic hydrogen . Data was taken between 1997 and 2002 using the Parkes Observatory. HIPASS covered 71% of the sky and identified 5317 sources emitting HI's signature wavelength...
- NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
- NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) http://www.nofs.navy.mil/nomad/
- NStars — Nearby Stars DatabaseNearby Stars DatabaseThe Nearby Stars Database began as a NASA project in 1998 and is now based at Northern Arizona University.-Stated Goal:The stated mission of NStars "is to be a complete and accurate source of scientific data about all stellar systems within 25 parsecs."The website includes search tools and links...
- NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable StarsNew Catalogue of Suspected Variable StarsThe New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars is a star catalogue containing 14,811 stars which, although suspected to be variable, were not given variable star designations prior to 1980. It was published in 1982.-External links:...
P
- PGC — Principal Galaxies CataloguePrincipal Galaxies CatalogueThe Catalogue of Principal Galaxies is an astronomical catalogue published in 1989 that lists B1950 and J2000 equatorial coordinates and cross-identifications for 73,197 galaxies. 40,932 coordinates have standard deviations smaller than 10″. A total of 131,601 names from the 38 most...
- PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue
- PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek)
- PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins, Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
) - PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog
- PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae
- PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star CataloguesPPM Star CatalogueThe PPM Star Catalogue is the successor of the SAO Catalogue. It contains precise positions and proper motions of 378,910 stars on the whole sky in the J2000/FK5 coordinate system....
R
- RC — Reference Catalogue
- RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
- RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
- RCW — A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky WayRCW CatalogueThe RCW Catalogue is an Astronomical catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way, described in . It has 180 objects and includes many of the earlier Gum Catalog objects, and the later Caldwell catalogue included some RCW...
- RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby StarsResearch Consortium on Nearby StarsThe Research Consortium on Nearby Stars is an international group of astronomers founded in 1994 to investigate the stars nearest to the Solar System - those within 10 parsecs...
- RNGC — Revised New General CatalogueRevised New General CatalogueThe Revised New General Catalogue and companion Revised Index Catalogue is a revision to the original New General Catalogue and Index Catalogues made by J. L. E. Dreyer. Some of the brightnesses of objects measured by Dreyer were not accurate or the description of the object was not accurate....
- Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars
- ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars
- RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
- RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Rossiter)
- RX — ROSATROSATROSAT was a German Aerospace Center-led satellite X-ray telescope, with instruments built by Germany, the UK and the US...
observations
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- SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago
- SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star CatalogSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star CatalogThe Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue. It was published by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1966 and contains 258,997 stars. The catalogue was...
- SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
- SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky SurveySloan Digital Sky SurveyThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-filter 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 was named after the Alfred P...
- SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
- 1SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1st release
- 2SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
- 3SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
- Sh — Sharpless catalogSharpless catalogThe Sharpless catalog is a list of 312 HII regions , intended to be comprehensive north of declination -27°. The first edition was publishing 1953 with 142 objects and second and final version was published by US astronomer Stewart Sharpless in 1959 with 312 objects.In 1953 Stewart Sharpless joined...
(Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2(1959)) - SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre
- SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey
- SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars
- SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue
- SPOCS -- Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
- SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
- SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
- SSTc2d — Spitzer Space TelescopeSpitzer Space TelescopeThe Spitzer Space Telescope , formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003...
c2d Legacy Source - STF — Struve the FatherFriedrich Georg Wilhelm von StruveFriedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Danish-Baltic German astronomer from a famous dynasty.-Life:...
double star - Stock — Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in , Stock 3 to 23 in , Stock 24 in )
T
- TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog
- TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxesTD1 Catalog of Stellar Ultraviolet FluxesIn 1978, the TD1 Stellar Ultraviolet Flux Survey cataloged the ultraviolet flux of unreddened stars down to the 10th visual magnitude. The Ultraviolet Sky Survey Telescope on board the TD1 completed this full-sky survey...
(TD1 satellite) - TIC — Tycho Input Catalog
- TrES — Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet SurveyTrans-Atlantic Exoplanet SurveyThe Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey or TrES, uses three 4-inch telescopes located at Lowell Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and the Canary Islands to locate exoplanets. It was made using the network of small, relatively inexpensive telescopes designed to look specifically for planets orbiting...
- TrES-And0 — TrESTrans-Atlantic Exoplanet SurveyThe Trans-atlantic Exoplanet Survey or TrES, uses three 4-inch telescopes located at Lowell Observatory, Palomar Observatory, and the Canary Islands to locate exoplanets. It was made using the network of small, relatively inexpensive telescopes designed to look specifically for planets orbiting...
of planetary candidate in the AndromedaAndromeda (constellation)Andromeda is a constellation in the northern sky. It is named after Andromeda, the princess in the Greek legend of Perseus who was chained to a rock to be eaten by the sea monster Cetus...
constellation
- TrES-And0 — TrES
- TVLM — Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue
- TYC — Tycho Catalogue
- TYC2 — Tycho-2 CatalogueTycho-2 CatalogueThe Tycho-2 Catalogue is a 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 the 2,539,913 of the brightest stars in the Milky Way, of which about 5000 are visible to the...
- TYC2 — Tycho-2 Catalogue
- Trumpler — Robert Julius TrumplerRobert Julius TrumplerRobert Julius Trumpler was a Swiss-American astronomer....
's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters
U
- UBV — Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968)
- UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry CatalogueUBV Photoelectric Photometry CatalogueThe UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue, or UBV M, is the star brightness catalogue that complies to the UBV photometric system developed by astronomer Harold Johnson.- Evolution of the UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue:...
(Mermilliod 1987) - UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1 , UCAC2 and UCAC3)
- UGC — Uppsala General CatalogueUppsala General CatalogueThe Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies is a catalogue of 12921 galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere. It was published the first time in 1973....
- USNO — US Naval Observatory
- USNO-A1.0 — US Naval Observatory, A1.0 catalogue
- USNO-A2.0 — US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue
- USNO-B1.0 — US Naval Observatory, B1.0 catalogue
- uvby98 — uvbyβ photoelectric photometric catalogue, by B. Hauck, M. Mermilliod, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 129, 431-433 (1998)
V
- vB — Van BiesbroeckGeorge Van BiesbroeckGeorge A. Van Biesbroeck was a Belgian-American astronomer. He worked at observatories in Belgium, Germany and the United States. He specialized in the observation of double stars, asteroids and comets...
catalog, variant, "VB" - VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog
- VdB- van den BerghSidney van den BerghSidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS is a retired Canadian astronomer.Born in the Netherlands, son of businessman and politician Sidney James van den Bergh and grandson of Unilever co-founder Samuel van den Bergh, he showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy...
W
- W20 — Washington 20 Catalog
- WASP — Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
- WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
- WDS — Washington Double Star CatalogWashington Double Star CatalogThe 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 102,387 pairs of double stars. The catalog also includes multiple stars...
- Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue
- Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars (WolfMax WolfMaximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...
) - WR — Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars
X
- XBS — XMM-NewtonXMM-NewtonThe XMM-Newton is an orbiting X-ray observatory launched by ESA in December 1999 on a Ariane 5 rocket...
, Bright Source - XBSS — XMM-NewtonXMM-NewtonThe XMM-Newton is an orbiting X-ray observatory launched by ESA in December 1999 on a Ariane 5 rocket...
Bright Serendipitous Survey - XEST — XMM-NewtonXMM-NewtonThe XMM-Newton is an orbiting X-ray observatory launched by ESA in December 1999 on a Ariane 5 rocket...
Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular- XEST-OM — XEST, OpticalLightLight or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight. Visible light has wavelength in a range from about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm, with a frequency range of about 405 THz to 790 THz...
/UVUltravioletUltraviolet light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays, in the range 10 nm to 400 nm, and energies from 3 eV to 124 eV...
Monitor
- XEST-OM — XEST, Optical
- XTE — X-rayX-rayX-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma...
Timing Explorer
Z
- Z — Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies
- Book of Fixed StarsBook of Fixed StarsThe Book of Fixed Stars is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi around 964. The book was written in Arabic, although the author himself was Persian...
- Tables of ToledoTables of ToledoThe 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...
- Zij-i IlkhaniZij-i IlkhaniZīj-i Īlkhānī or Ilkhanic Tables is a Zij book with astronomical tables of planetary movements. It was compiled by the Persian astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in collaboration with his research team of astronomers at the Maragha observatory...
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