astronomical catalogue An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, Galaxy morphological classification, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. The olde ...

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 within the observable universe. In astronomy, the terms ''object'' and ''body'' are of ...

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 celestial cartography, map or astrophotography, 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 image ...

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 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 All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog * 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 HEAO Program, High Energy Astrophysical Observatories. Named HEAO B before launch, the observatory's name was changed to ho ...

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. Sources are labelled 8C HHMM+D ...

* 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 cat ...

A

* AB — Azzopardi / Breysacher ( Wolf-Rayet stars in the

Small Magellanic Cloud The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D25 isophotal diameter of about , and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 bill ...

, 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, whi ...

* Abetti —

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

(double stars) * Abt — (for example: open star cluster Abt 1 = Biurakan 4 = Markarian 6 = Stock 7) (at 2:29.6 / +60°39' near the southwestern section of the

Heart Nebula The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running Dog Nebula, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula, away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 178 ...

in Cassiopeia) * 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 ...

* A.C. —

Alvan Clark Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887) was an American astronomer and telescope maker. Biography Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Clark started as a portrait painter and engraver (c.1830s–1850s), and at the age of 40 became involved ...

(double stars) * Ac / Ack —

Agnès Acker Agnès Acker, née ''Keller'', (born 28 January 1940 in Thann, Haut-Rhin) is a French astrophysicist, professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg, founder of the Strasbourg Planetarium and founding president of the Association of French-s ...

(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, Fall River, Massachusetts, the son of Alvan Clark, founder of Alvan Clark & S ...

(double stars) * AGC —

Arecibo Arecibo (; ) is a Arecibo barrio-pueblo, city and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado, Puerto Rico, Utuado and Ciales, Puerto Rico, Ciale ...

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 National Geographic Society — Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) (POSS) * AG, AGK, AGKR —

Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog The ''Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog'' (AGK) is an astrometric star catalogue of the Northern hemisphere. It was published in 3 versions from 1890 until 1975, named AGK1, AGK2 and AGK3. History Compilation for the first version, Astronomische ...

* 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", in

Camelopardalis Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation of the northern sky representing a giraffe. The constellation was introduced in 1612 or 1613 by Petrus Plancius. Some older astronomy books give Camelopardalus or Camelopardus as alternative form ...

). Alicante 1 looks like a chain of dim stars with two relatively bright accompanying stars known as TYC 3725-498-1 and TYC 3725-866-1 (source: Wikisky) * Aller — R.M. Aller (double stars) ( Ramón María Aller Ulloa?) * ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars * Alter (open star clusters) (for example: Alter 1 at 0:31:56.9 / +63°09'47" in

Cassiopeia Cassiopeia or Cassiopea may refer to: Greek mythology * Cassiopeia (mother of Andromeda), queen of Aethiopia and mother of Andromeda * Cassiopeia (wife of Phoenix), wife of Phoenix, king of Phoenicia * Cassiopeia, wife of Epaphus, king of Egy ...

) (Alter 1 = King 14 = ''Alter Cluster'') * 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 Arp-Madore 1 (also known as AM 1) is a globular cluster visible in the constellation Horologium (constellation), Horologium, located away from Earth. It is one of the most distant known globular clusters of the Milky Way galaxy's galactic halo, ...

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 (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical dis ...

in Puppis) * An — Anderson (double stars) * Andrews / Lindsay (AL) (open star clusters) (for example: Andrews-Lindsay 1 at 13:15:16 / -65°55'12" in

Musca is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of 12 constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, and it first appeared on a celestial globe in diameter p ...

) (AL 1 is also known as vdB-Hagen 144) * Annis (?) * APM —

Automatic Plate Measuring machine Automatic may refer to: Music Bands * Automatic (Australian band), Australian rock band * Automatic (American band), American rock band * The Automatic, a Welsh alternative rock band Albums * ''Automatic'' (Jack Bruce album), a 1983 ele ...

* Apriamashvili (open star clusters) (the open star cluster Basel 1 at about one degree WNW of Messier 11 is also known as the Apriamashvili cluster) * Ara — (for example: Ara 2035 at 7:08.8/-24°03' in

Canis Major Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and is counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for "greater dog" in contrast to C ...

) (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" in

Serpens Cauda Serpens () is a constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, it remains one of the 88 modern constellations designated by the International Astronomical Union. It ...

) * Arg —

Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (22 March 1799 – 17 February 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances. Life and work Argelander was born in Memel in the Kingd ...

(double stars) * ARO —

Algonquin Radio Observatory The Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) is a radio observatory located in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1959 in order to host a number of the National Research Council of Canada's (NRC) ongoing experiments in a more ra ...

* Arp —

Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies The ''Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies'' is a Astronomical catalog, 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 Institut ...

* 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

) (Auner 1 is the cluster which was "lost" in the disturbing ghost reflection of nearby Alpha Canis Majoris, aka

Sirius Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word (Latin script: ), meaning 'glowing' or 'scorching'. The star is designated Canis Majoris, Latinized to Alpha Canis Majoris, and abbr ...

, this during the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, POSS) * Av — Antalova (open star clusters) (for example: Antalova 1 at 17:28:55 / -31°34'11' in

Scorpius Scorpius is a zodiac constellation located in the Southern celestial hemisphere, where it sits near the center of the Milky Way, between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. Scorpius is an ancient constellation whose recognition pred ...

) * Av-Hunter — Aveni / Hunter (open star clusters) (for example: Aveni-Hunter 1 at 23:37:48 / +48°31'12", north of the former constellation

Honores Friderici Honores Friderici or Frederici Honores, (Latin, "the Honours, or Regalia, of Frederic") also called Gloria Frederica or Frederici ("Glory of Frederick") was a constellation created by Johann Bode in 1787 to honor Frederick the Great, the king of ...

in Andromeda) * 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's

List of Dark Nebulae This is a list of dark nebulae (absorption nebulae), also called "dark clouds". List * Finger of God Globule *E Nebula (Barnard 142 and 143) *Barnard 68, possibly the closest to Earth at about 400 light-years. *Le Gentil 3 *Sandqvist 111 *Sandqv ...

* B2 —
Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz
(9929 radio sources) performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope * B3 —
The New Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz
(13354 radio sources) performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope * 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, 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) in the night sky. It is named because its shape resembles North America. History ...

in Cygnus) * BAR — E.E. Barton (double stars) * Bas — Basel (open star clusters) (for example: Basel 1 at about one degree WNW of open star cluster Messier 11 in Scutum) (Basel 1 is also known as the Apriamashvili cluster) * Bat — Hans Battermann, 1860–1922 (double stars) * BAT99 — The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud * BAY —

Uranometria is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer. It was published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mang (''Christophorus Mangus'') under the full title (from Latin: ''Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations, drawn by a new method an ...

(

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

) * 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, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886. The name comes from ('run-t ...

* 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'') * Be — Berkeley (open star clusters) (104 items) * Be — Bernes (dark nebulae) * Bedin — Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy

Bedin I Bedin I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy located in the constellation Pavo. It is situated around 28.38 million light-years from Earth, behind the globular cluster NGC 6752. Bedin I is possibly one of the oldest galaxies known, having formed aro ...

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) * BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus) * 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) (for example: BoBn 1, an extragalactic planetary nebula at 0:37 / -13°42' in

Cetus Cetus () is a constellation, sometimes called 'the whale' in English. The Cetus (mythology), Cetus was a sea monster in Greek mythology which both Perseus and Heracles needed to slay. Cetus is in the region of the sky that contains other water- ...

) * 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 ...

(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 +1.72, it is one of the brighte ...

, 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) (for example: Briceno 1 at the star 25 Orionis) * 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 cata ...

(Sir Patrick Moore) * Caballero-Solano — (for example: open star cluster Caballero-Solano 1 at Delta Orionis, also known as the

Mintaka Mintaka , designation Delta Orionis (δ Orionis, abbreviated Delta Ori, δ Ori) and 34 Orionis (34 Ori), is a quintuple star system some 1,200 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Orion. Together with Alnitak (Zeta ...

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 The Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity in the constellation Carina, located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Wa ...

) * 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 astrometry, astrometric star catalogue of double star, double and multiple star, multiple stars. It was made by Jean Dommanget and Omer Nys at the Observatoire Royal de Belgiq ...

* CCO — Catalogue of Cometary Orbits * CCS —

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

** CCS2 —

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

, second edition * CD / CoD —

Cordoba Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886. The name comes from ('run-t ...

* 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 Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed * CG — Cometary Globule (for example: CG 4 in Puppis, also known as 'God's Hand') * CGCG — Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies * 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 in

Hercules Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures. The Romans adapted the Gr ...

, 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 Messier 67 (also known as M67 or NGC 2682) and sometimes called the King Cobra Cluster or the Golden Eye Cluster is an open cluster in the southern, equatorial half of Cancer. It was discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in 1779. Estimates of it ...

in Cancer) * CIO —

Catalog of Infrared Observations Catalog or catalogue may refer to: *Cataloging **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 *** Calendar (arch ...

* 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 * Carls ...

* 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 wh ...

* CPD —

Cape Photographic Durchmusterung In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung (BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886. The name comes from ('run-t ...

* Cr — Collinder (open star clusters) ( Per Collinder) * Crinklaw — (telescopic asterisms) * CRL — Cambridge Research Laboratory Sky-Survey (three color infrared 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 crea ...

* CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables * CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars * 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 Param ...

(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 Inte ...

List A * Danjon — Andre Danjon (double stars) * Danks — (open star clusters) (for example: Danks 1 & 2, located near the northeastern ''Centaurus section'' of the

Coalsack Nebula The Coalsack Nebula (Southern Coalsack, or simply ''the'' Coalsack) is a dark nebula, which is visible to the naked eye as a dark patch obscuring part of the Milky Way east of Acrux (Alpha Crucis) in the constellation of Crux (constellation), Cru ...

) * 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) (for example: DeHt 1 at 5:55 / -22°54' in

Lepus Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The genu ...

) * 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 Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than t ...

** 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, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886. The name comes from ('run-t ...

** BD —

** CD / CoD —

** CPD —

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

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

* 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 Donatiello I, also known as Mirach's Goblin, is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy in the constellation Andromeda, located between 8.1 and 11.4 million light-years from Earth. It is a possible satellite galaxy of the dwarf lenticular galaxy NGC 404, ...

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 comparable t ...

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 O ...

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 as Sgr A* ( ), is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way. Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south o ...

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

, ESO/Uppsala catalog * 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 Fornax () is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, partly ringed by the celestial river Eridanus. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Fornax is one of the 88 modern ...

* Fei — Feinstein (open star clusters) (for example: Feinstein 1 at 11:05:56 / -59°49'00" in

Carina Carina may refer to: Places Australia * Carina, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane * Carina Heights, Queensland, a suburb in Brisbane * Carina, Victoria, a locality in Mildura Serbia * Carina, Osečina, a village in the Kolubara District ...

) * 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", in

Chamaeleon Chamaeleon () is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It is named after the chameleon, a kind of lizard. It was first defined in the 16th century. History Chamaeleon was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius f ...

, at the binary star Epsilon Chamaeleonis) * Ferrero (telescopic asterisms) * Φ — W.S. Finsen (double stars) * Fg — Fleming (planetary nebulae), for example: Fleming 1 * FK4 —

Fourth Fundamental Catalogue The 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 measuring positions of s ...

* 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 Avenue * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a conta ...

* Fle — J.O. Fleckenstein (double stars) * FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (

Flamsteed designation A Flamsteed designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the 88 modern constellations, modern constellations visible from southern England. They are named after John Flamsteed, au ...

) * For — L. Forgeron (double stars) * Fox — Philip Fox (double stars) * French — Sue French (from Sky and Telescope) * Fr — Frolov (open star clusters) (for example: Frolov 1 at 23:57:25 / +61°37'48" in

) * Franz — J. Franz (double stars) * Frh — R. Furuhjelm (double stars) * Frk — W.S. Franks (double stars and colours of stars) (probably William Sadler Franks, published a catalogue of the colours of 3890 stars) * FSC — Faint Source Catalogue * FSR — Froebrich-Scholz-Raftery, I.R. (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster FSR 1758 in Scorpius) * Fur — H.Furner (double stars)

G

* G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (

Giclas Henry Lee Giclas (December 9, 1910 – April 2, 2007) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets. best known for hiring Robert Burnham Jr. at the Lowell Observatory. He worked on a notable proper motion survey with ...

) ** 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 catalogues The ''Gaia'' catalogues are star catalogues created using the results obtained by ''Gaia'' space telescope. The catalogues are released in stages that will contain increasing amounts of information; the early releases also miss some stars, espec ...

(general purpose) ** Gaia DR1 ** Gaia DR2 ** Gaia EDR3 ** Gaia DR3 * GC —

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

* 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 (who lived from 1880 to 1970) and published in the United States in 1936. Its original name ...

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 velocity ...

* 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 year ...

* GCVS —

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

* 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 (82 ly) of the Sun. First edition and supplements In 1957, German astronomer Wilhelm Gliese published his first star cat ...

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 in

) * 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') 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 * 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-P —

HATNet Project The Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (HATNet) project is a network of six small fully automated "HAT" telescopes. The scientific goal of the project is to detect and characterize extrasolar planets using the transit method. This network is us ...

, Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (search for extrasolar planets) * HATS - HATNet Project, southern hemisphere. * 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 Galaxy, 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 Accordin ...

* HCWils — H.C. Wilson (double stars) * HD —

Henry Draper Catalogue The ''Henry Draper Catalogue'' (HD) 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'' (HDE), published between 192 ...

* HDE —

Henry Draper Extension The ''Henry Draper Catalogue'' (HD) 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'' (HDE), published between 1925 a ...

* 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 ''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 and distances of ...

* 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 and distances of ...

* 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') * 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 (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the Orbiting Solar Observatory, first space telescope, but it is one of the largest and most ...

) * 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 2MASS-GC02, also known as Hurt 2, is a globular cluster at a distance of about 16 thousand light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered in 2000 by Joselino Vasquez together with globular cluster 2MASS-GC01 and a spir ...

in Sagittarius) * Huygens — Christiaan Huygens (double stars) * HV — Harvard Variable * HVGC — Hyper Velocity Globular Cluster (for example: HVGC-1 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 ...

** 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 ...

* IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source * 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 mo ...

* IRS — International Reference Star * Isk — Iskudarian (open star clusters) (for example: Iskudarian 1 in the northern section of the rhombus β, γ, δ, and ζ

Lyra , from ; pronounced: ) is a small constellation. It is one of the 48 listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and is one of the modern 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. Lyra was often represented on star ...

e) * Isserstedt (telescopic asterisms) * IsWe — Ishida-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * Ivanov (open star clusters)

J

* J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (se

for an article about it) * Ja — Jacoby (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jacoby 1 at 15:23 / +52°14' in

Boötes Boötes ( ) is a constellation in the northern sky, located between 0° and +60° declination, and 13 and 16 hours of right ascension on the celestial sphere. The name comes from , which comes from 'herder, herdsman' or 'plowman' (literally, 'o ...

) * JaFu — Jacoby-Fullton (planetary nebulae) * JAn — John A. Anderson (double stars) * Jc — William Stephen Jacob (double stars) * Jef — H.M. Jeffers (double stars) * Jn — Jones (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jones 1 at 23:36 / +30°28' in

Pegasus Pegasus (; ) is a winged horse in Greek mythology, usually depicted as a white stallion. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa. Pegasus was the brother of Chrysaor, both born from Medusa's blood w ...

) * JnEr — Jones-Emberson (planetary nebulae) (for example:

Jones-Emberson 1 Jones-Emberson 1 (PK 164+31.1), also known as the Headphone Nebula, is a 14th magnitude planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx at a distance of 1600 light years. It is a larger planetary with low surface brightness. The 16.8-magnitude central s ...

in Lynx, also known as the ''Headphone nebula'') * Jo — Jones (double stars) * Johansson — (open star clusters) (for example: Johansson 1 at 15:46:20 / -52:22:54 in

Norma Norma may refer to: * Norma (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) ** Norma Lizbeth Ramos, a Mexican bullying victim Astronomy *Norma (constellation) * 555 Norma, a minor asteroid * Cygnus Arm or Norma Arm, a spiral ...

) * 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) * JP11 – a 1978 catalog compiling photometric measurements in Harold Johnson's 11-color photometric syste

* 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 of p ...

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 members ...

(search for extrasolar planets) * Kemble — Father Lucian Kemble (asterisms which could be observed through binoculars, for example: Kemble 1, aka ''Kemble's Cascade'' in Camelopardalis) * Kepler —

catalog * Kes — Kesteven (supernova remnants). For example: Kesteven 79 * K / Kg — Ivan R. King (open star clusters) * KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman * Kharchenko (for example: open star cluster Kharchenko 1 at 6:08:48 / +24:19:54 near or at

Messier 35 Messier 35 or M35, also known as NGC 2168 or the Shoe-Buckle Cluster, is a relatively close open cluster of stars in the west of Gemini, at about the declination of the Sun when the latter is at June solstice. It was discovered by Philippe Loys ...

in Gemini) * 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 the Kepler space telescope. Overview The Kepler SCP targets were observed by t ...

* Kim — Dongwon Kim (for example: globular star cluster Kim 2 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 The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a dwarf galaxy and satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of around , the LMC is the second- or third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, Sagittarius Dwarf ...

) * Koposov (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star clusters Koposov 1 and Koposov 2 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 at 5:28:20 / +34°46'52", aka Alicante 12, in

Auriga Auriga is a constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is one of the 88 modern constellations; it was among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy. Its name is Latin for '(the) charioteer', associating i ...

) * 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) ** 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 Laevens 1 is a faint globular cluster in the constellation Crater that was discovered in 2014. It is also known as Crater, the Crater cluster and PSO J174.0675-10.8774. At a distance of it is the most distant Milky Way globular cluster yet kn ...

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 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" in

Coma Berenices Coma Berenices is an ancient asterism in the northern sky, which has been defined as one of the 88 modern constellations. It is in the direction of the fourth galactic quadrant, between Leo and Boötes, and it is visible in both hemispher ...

) * Latysev — (open star clusters) * Lau — H.E. Lau (double stars) * LBN —

Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (abbreviation: LBN) is an astronomical catalogue of bright nebulae. Objects listed in the catalogue are numbered with the prefix LBN (not to be confused with LDN, or Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae). Many ent ...

* Lbz — P. Labitzke (double stars) * LDN —

Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (abbreviation: LDN) is an astronomical catalogue of dark nebulae. Objects listed in the catalogue are numbered with the prefix LDN (not to be confused with LBN, or Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae), from numbers ...

* 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 (PGC), published ...

* 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 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 year ...

* 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 E ...

* – Local Group Galaxy Survey * 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 Gala ...

) * LHA — Lamont-Hussey Alpha * LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue * 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: open star cluster Loiano 1 at 19:58:21 / +32°32'42" in Cygnus) * Lorenzin — Tomm Lorenzin (telescopic asterisms) * LoTr — Longmore-Tritton (planetary nebulae) * LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey * LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue * 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 Luminous may refer to: Music * Luminous (group), a South Korean boy band * Luminous (EP), ''Luminous'' (EP), a 2004 EP by Cesium_137 * Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood album), ''Luminous'' (John Hicks and Elise Wood album), 1985–88 * Luminous ...

* LSPM —

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— Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog * LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue * LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way * LTT — Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue * Luginbuhl-Skiff — (for example: open star cluster Luginbuhl-Skiff 1 at 6:14:48 / +12°52'24", slightly east of open star cluster NGC 2194 in

Orion Orion may refer to: Common meanings * Orion (constellation), named after the mythical hunter * Orion (mythology), a hunter in Greek mythology Arts and media Fictional entities Characters and species * Orion (character), a DC Comics c ...

) * Luhman — (for example:

Luhman 16 Luhman 16 (also designated WISE 1049−5319 or WISE J104915.57−531906.1) is a Binary system, binary brown dwarf, brown-dwarf system in the southern constellation Vela (constellation), Vela at a distance of from the Sun. These are th ...

in Vela) * Luy — W.J. Luyten (double stars) * Lv —

Francis Preserved Leavenworth Francis Preserved Leavenworth (September 3, 1858 in Mount Vernon, Indiana – November 12, 1928; a.k.a. ''Frank Leavenworth'') was an American astronomer. He discovered many New General Catalogue objects together with Frank Muller and Ormond Sto ...

(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 of Nebulae and Star Clusters''). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created a list of th ...

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

Massive Compact Halo Object A MAssive Compact Halo Object (MACHO) is a kind of astronomy, astronomical body that might explain the apparent presence of dark matter in galactic halos. A MACHO is a body that emits little or no radiation and drifts through interstellar space un ...

) ** 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 near the constellation borders between Perseus and Cassiopeia, located 9.8 million light years away. Once believed to be a member of the Local Group of galaxies, it is now known to belong to a separate grou ...

and

Maffei 2 Maffei 2 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 1 E23 m, 10 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia (constellation), Cassiopeia. Maffei 2 and Maffei 1 were both discovered by Paolo Maffei in 1968 from their infrared emission. M ...

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 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 one of the largest known spiral galaxies, with an approximate diameter of , thus over s ...

in Coma Berenices) * Mamajek (open star clusters) (for example: Mamajek 1 at 8:42:06 / -79°01'38" in

, also known as η Chamaeleontis cluster or η Chamaeleontis association) * 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 * 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 Surv ...

* 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 natural satellite, moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë (moon), Pasiphaë. It was simp ...

) * Mercer (for example: globular star cluster Mercer 3 in Scutum) * MGC (globular star clusters) (for example: MGC1 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", near the variable star GL Velorum, in Vela) * 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" in

) * Moitinho (open star clusters) (for example: Moitinho 1 at 8:19:17 / -45°12'30", southwest of the Gum Nebula, in Vela) * 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 and galaxies; the

Markarian galaxies The Markarian galaxies are a class of galaxies that have nuclei with excessive amounts of ultraviolet emissions compared with other galaxies. Benjamin Markarian drew attention to these types of galaxies starting in 1963. The nuclei of the gala ...

) * MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill — Catalog of Radio Sources * Muzzio (open star clusters) (for example: Muzzio 1 at 8:57:12 / -47°46'00" in Vela) * MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, ''not in SIMBAD yet'' * MWC – (1933) Class O, B and A stars with bright hydrogen lines * 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 * 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 galaxy, galaxies, star cluste ...

* 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 fr ...

(extrasolar planets) * NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog * NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue * 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) * OCL — Open Clusters * OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogu

* OGLE —

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) is a Polish astronomy, astronomical project based at the University of Warsaw that runs time-domain astronomy, a long-term variability sky survey (1992–present). The main goals are the detecti ...

* 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 Obser ...

* 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) * PACWB — Catalogue of Particle-Accelerating Colliding-Wind Binarie

* 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 Principal Galaxies Catalogue (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), wh ...

* PH — Planet Hunters * PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue * Pi — Pismis ( Paris Pişmiş, 1911–1999) (catalogue of 22 open star clusters and 2 globular star clusters) * PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae ( Perek-

Kohoutek Kohoutek (feminine: Kohoutková) is a Czech surname. It is a diminutive of the word ''kohout'' and the surname Kohout. Notable people with the surname include: *Ctirad Kohoutek (1929–2011), Czech composer and music theorist *Luboš Kohoutek (193 ...

) * 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 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 year ...

(Jenkins,

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

) * 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 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 use ...

* 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) * RBS — Rosat Bright Survey (bright X-ray sources) * RC — Reference Catalogue ** 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 galaxy, galaxies, star cluste ...

* 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 (

Frank Elmore Ross Frank Elmore Ross (April 2, 1874 – September 21, 1960) was an American astronomer and physicist. He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Altadena, California. In 1901 he received his doctorate from the University of California. ...

) * ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars * 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 Un ...

observations

S

* S —

James South Sir James South (October 1785 – 19 October 1867) was a British astronomer. He was a joint founder of the Astronomical Society of London, and it was under his name, as President of the Society in 1831, that a petition was successfully subm ...

(double stars) * Sa — Sanduleak (planetary nebulae) * SA — Sandqvist (dark nebulae) (for example: Sandqvist 169 near

Alpha Centauri Alpha Centauri (, α Cen, or Alpha Cen) is a star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus (constellation), Centaurus. It consists of three stars: Rigil Kentaurus (), Toliman (), and Proxima Centauri (). Proxima Centauri ...

) * 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" in

Canis Minor Canis Minor is a small constellation in the Celestial sphere, northern celestial hemisphere. In the second century, it was included as an Asterism (astronomy), asterism, or pattern, of two stars in Ptolemy's 48 constellations, and it is counte ...

) * SaWe — Sanduleak-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) * SAX — Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X (

BeppoSAX BeppoSAX was an Italian–Dutch satellite for X-ray astronomy which played a crucial role in resolving the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic events known in the universe. It was the first X-ray mission capable of simultaneousl ...

satellite) * SC — Slough catalogue ("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 —

John Martin Schaeberle John Martin Schaeberle (January 10, 1853 – September 17, 1924) was a Kingdom of Württemberg-born American astronomer. Biography He was born Johann Martin Schäberle in Kingdom of Württemberg, but in 1854 immigrated as an infant to the Unit ...

(double stars) * Schj —

Hans Schjellerup Hans Carl Frederik Christian Schjellerup (8 February 1827 – 13 November 1887) was a Danish astronomer. He was born at Odense, the son of a jeweller. Initially he was apprenticed as a watch maker, but in 1848 he passed the entrance exam for th ...

(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" in Vela) * 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 ** SHOC --- Strong Emission Line H II Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Catalog of DR1 Objects with Oxygen Abundances from Te Measurements. ** 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, 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 away ...

in Leo,

Segue 2 Segue 2 is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the constellation Aries and discovered in 2009 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at the distance of about from the Sun and moves towards the Sun at a speed of . ...

in Aries, and

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

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 1 ...

(Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2 (1959)) * Sh — Sher (open star clusters) (for example: Sher 1 at 11:01:04 / -60°14'00" in

) * 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') at 10:54.8 / +40°28' in

Ursa Major Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation in the Northern Sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory. Its Latin name means "greater (or larger) bear", referring to and contrasting it with nearby Ursa M ...

) * Shorlin — (for example: open star cluster Shorlin 1 at 11:05:46 / -61°13'48" in

) * Simeis — (for example: supernova remnant Simeis 147 / Sh2-240 in Taurus, also known as the ' Spaghetti Nebula') * SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre (), an all-sky survey in the near-infrared initiated in 2005 with the CPARIR camera. * Sinnott — (multiple star systems) * SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey * 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 —

Giovanni Schiaparelli Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli ( , , ; 14 March 1835 – 4 July 1910) was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Biography He studied at the University of Turin, graduating in 1854, and later did research at Berlin Observatory, unde ...

(double stars) * Sp — Shapley (planetary nebulae) * Spano — (telescopic asterisms) * SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars * SPF3 —

Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * 1⁄60 of a ''second'', i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system Places * 3rd Street (dis ...

* SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars * SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog * 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, that was deactivated when operations ended on 30 January 2020. Spitzer was the third space telescope dedicate ...

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) —

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (, trans. ''Vasily Yakovlevich Struve''; 15 April 1793 – ) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve ...

, aka 'Struve the Father' (double stars) ** ΣI — W. Struve, First Supplement (double stars) ** ΣII — W. Struve, Second Supplement (double stars) * StM –

Charles Bruce Stephenson Charles Bruce Stephenson (February 9, 1929 – December 3, 2001) was an American astronomer. He was a professor at Case Western Reserve University. Biography He was born on a ranch in Little Rock, Arkansas, the only son of Chauncey Elvira Stephe ...

(late M stars) * St / Stock — Jürgen Stock (open star 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 Ormond Stone (January 11, 1847 – January 17, 1933), was an American astronomer, mathematician and educator. He was the director of Cincinnati Observatory and subsequently the first director of the McCormick Observatory at the University of ...

(double stars) * Streicher — (telescopic asterisms) * Stromlo — (for example: Stromlo 2 in

Monoceros Monoceros ( Greek: , "unicorn") is a faint constellation on the celestial equator. Its definition is attributed to the 17th-century cartographer Petrus Plancius. It is bordered by Orion to the west, Gemini to the north, Canis Major to the s ...

and

, 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 The Terzan Catalogue (abbreviation: Ter) is an astronomical catalogue of globular clusters. Overview The Terzan Catalogue consists of 11 globular clusters discovered by Agop Terzan using infrared astronomy, infrared observations made at Lyon Obs ...

(11 objects) * THA — TH-alpha catalogue of emission line stars in the Eta Carinae nebula region * TIC —

TESS Tess or TESS may refer to: Film and theatre * Tess (1979 film), ''Tess'' (1979 film), a 1979 film adaptation of ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles'' * Tess (2016 film), ''Tess'' (2016 film), a South African production Music * Tess (band), a Spanish pop ...

Input Catalog * TIC — Tycho Input Catalog * TOI —

Object of Interest * Tom —

Clyde Tombaugh Clyde William Tombaugh (; February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer best known for discovering Pluto, the first object to be identified in what would later be recognized as the Kuiper belt, in 1930. Raised on farms in ...

(open star clusters) * Ton — Tonantzintla Catalogue (globular star clusters) * TPK — Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger (asterisms) (for example: Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger 1 at 23:39.3 / +47°30', north of the former constellation

in Andromeda) * TRAPPIST —

Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastic ...

* 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 inexpens ...

** TrES-And0 —

TrES Tres may refer to: * Tres (instrument), a Cuban musical instrument * Tres, Trentino, municipality in Italy * ''Tres'' (2014 film), a Filipino anthology drama film based on short stories * "Tres" (song) by Juanes *"Tres", a song by Líbido from thei ...

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 and distances of ...

** 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 brightest ...

* Tr / Trumpler —

Robert Julius Trumpler Robert Julius Trumpler (October 2, 1886 – September 10, 1956) was a Swiss-American astronomer. Career Born in Switzerland in October 2, 1886, where Trumpler did initial schooling. Trumpler entered the Universität Zürich but later transferre ...

's open cluster list, published in ''Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters'' * Tu — Tucker (double stars) * Turner — David G. Turner (?) (open star clusters) (for example: Turner 9 at and near the variable star

SU Cygni SU Cygni is a triple star system in the northern constellation of Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus, abbreviated SU Cyg. The primary component of the system is a classical Cepheid variable with a period of 3.84559 days. The changing ...

, aka 'SU Cygni cluster')

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

UBV Photoelectric Photometry 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 ...

(Mermilliod 1987) * UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1, UCAC2, UCAC3 & UCAC4) * 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 limi ...

(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 The 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 D ...

** 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)

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* 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 Telescope, Otto Struve refractor telescope of the McDonald Observatory in Texas. Survey and catalog This survey is similar ...

, variant, "VB" * VBRC (?) * VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog * Vd — Vandervort (planetary nebulae) * VdB —

Van den Bergh Van den Bergh, Van Den Bergh is a Dutch surname, a variant of Van den Berg. Notable people with the surname include: *Arnold van den Bergh, Arnold van den Bergh (notary) (1886‒1950), Amsterdam civil law notary *Dave van den Bergh (born 1976), Dut ...

(catalogue of

reflection nebula In astronomy, reflection nebulae are interstellar cloud, clouds of Cosmic dust, interstellar dust which might reflect the light of a nearby star or stars. The energy from the nearby stars is insufficient to Ionization, ionize the gas of the nebu ...

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 Scien ...

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

Milky Way The Milky Way or Milky Way Galaxy is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the #Appearance, galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars in other arms of the galax ...

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

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* W — Radiosource ( Westerhout) * W20 — Washington 20 Catalog * 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 Astronomical survey, s ...

* WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit * 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 January 2024) 1 ...

* 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 and is located near Ursa Major in the night sky. It is named after Beth Willman of Haverford College, the lead author of a study based on the ...

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 astronomical catalogue, list of seven "new" double stars published by German Astronomer Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, August Winnecke in Astronomische Nachrichten in 1869. Winnecke later noted that three ...

* WNO — Washington Observations (double stars) (U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington D.C.) * Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue * Wolf —

Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars Catalog or catalogue may refer to: *Cataloging **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 *** Calendar (arch ...

(

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

) * Worley — Charles E. Worley (double stars) * WR — Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf / Georges Rayet)

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* 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 corners ...

, 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, ultravio ...

/ UV Monitor * XO — XO-Project (

XO Telescope The XO Project is an international team of amateur and professional astronomers tasked with identifying extrasolar planets. They are led by Peter R. McCullough of the Space Telescope Science Institute. It is primarily funded by NASA's Origins Pro ...

) (search for extrasolar planets) * XTE —

X-ray An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays. Roughly, X-rays have a wavelength ran ...

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 catalo ...

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 an ...

, ''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 ' () 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 ''zīj'' is derived from the Middle Persian term ' or ' "cord". Th ...

— 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'' ( ', literally ''The Book of the Shapes of Stars'') is an Astronomy, astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following Graeco-Arabic translation movement, the translation movement in the ...

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 mathematical tables that describe different asp ...

Zij-i Ilkhani ''Zīj-i Īlkhānī'' () or ''Ilkhanic Tables'' (literal translation: "The Ilkhan Stars", after ilkhan Hulagu, who was the patron of the author at that time) is a ''Zij'' book with Ephemeris, astronomical tables of planetary movements. It was com ...

Zij-i-Sultani ''Zīj-i Sulṭānī'' () 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 of Ulugh Beg at Samarkand ...

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VizieRCDS Service for Astronomical CataloguesDictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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