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 Sciences of the USSR.
The atlas and catalogue contain 852 interacting systems. The first part published in 1959 contained 355 interacting galaxies numbered VV1 through VV355, and the second part published in the 1970s included those numbered VV356 through VV852.
In 2001, an additional 1162 objects were added from the
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 ...
by
Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov et al. These objects have numbers ranging from VV853 to VV2014.
References
External links
The Catalogue of Interacting Galaxies by Vorontsov-Velyaminov- at
Sternberg Astronomical Institute website
Astronomical catalogues of galaxies
Astronomy in the Soviet Union
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