An astronomical catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. Astronomical catalogues are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind.
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0–9 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 satellitep. 19, X-ray sources in SIMBAD. 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 1The Einstein Slew Survey, Martin Elvis, David Plummer, Jonathan Schachter, and G. Fabbiano, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 80, #1 (May 1992), pp. 257–303, , . 1FGL, 2FGL — Lists of gamma-ray sources from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations 1RXS — ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog 1SWASP — SuperWASP 2A — see 1A 2C — Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources 2E — The Einstein Observatory 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 (and revised) 4C — Fourth Cambridge Survey of Celestial Radio Sources 5C — Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources 6C — Sixth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources 7C — Seventh Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources 8C — Eighth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources 8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec 9C — Ninth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources 10C — Tenth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources
A AAVSO — American Association of Variable Star Observers AB — Azzopardi / Breysacher (Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC) Abel (globular star clusters) Abell — Abell catalogue Abetti — Giorgio Abetti (double stars) Abt — (for example: open star cluster Abt 1 = Byurakan 4 = Markarian 6 = Stock 7) (at 2:29.6 / +60°39' near the southwestern section of the Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia) AC — Astrographic Catalogue A.C. — Alvan Clark (double stars) Ac / Ack — Agnès Acker (planetary nebulae) A.G.C. — Alvan Graham Clark (double stars) AGC — Arecibo General Catalog ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue AFGL — Air Force Geophysical Laboratory Ag — Estela L. Agüero (catalogue of peculiar galaxies, captured during the National Geographic Society — Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) (POSS) AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog AH03 — (star clusters) (source: Bruno Alessi's list) Al — (planetary nebulae) Alden — Harold Lee 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). 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 StarsReed, B.C., Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 115, 271–276 (1998) Alter (open star clusters) (for example: Alter 1 at 0:31:56.9 / +63°09'47" in Cassiopeia) (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 in Horologium, Arp-Madore 2 in Puppis) An — Anderson (double stars) (John August Anderson?) Andrews / Lindsay (AL) (open star clusters) (for example: Andrews-Lindsay 1 at 13:15:16 / -65°55'12" in Musca) (AL 1 is also known as vdB-Hagen 144) Annis (?) APEC — Asteroids Past Earth Close Encounters, Sormano Astronomical Observatory APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine Ap — S. P. Apriamasvili (Apriamashvili) or Semen Petrovich Apriamasvili (Russian: Семен Петрович Априамашвили) (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) Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2, page 48 (S.Aravamudan?) Arak / Ark — Marat Arsen Arakelian, 1929–1983 (Arakelian Emission Line Objects) Arce / Goodman (open star clusters) Archinal — probably Brent A. Archinal (for example: open star cluster Archinal 1 at 18:54:49 / +5°32'54" in Serpens Cauda) Arg — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (double stars) ARO — Algonquin Radio Observatory Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies ASCC — Nina V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001) AT-HYG — Augmented Tycho + HYG (Hipparcos, Yale, and Gliese) database Auner — (for example: open star cluster Auner 1 at 7:04:16 / -19°45'00" in Canis Major) (Auner 1 is the cluster which was "lost" in the disturbing ghost reflection of nearby Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius, this during the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, POSS) Av — Anna Antalová (open star clusters) (for example: Antalova 1 at 17:28:55 / -31°34'11' in Scorpius) 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 in Andromeda) AXP — Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar AZ / AzV — Azzopardi-Vigneau (Marc Anthony Azzopardi and Jean Vigneau)
B β — Sherburne Wesley 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 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 — Walter Baade (planetary nebulae) BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog Bail / Bal — René 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 — Klavdiâ Barkhatova (open star clusters) (for example: Barkhatova 1, NNW of NGC 7000; the North America Nebula 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 — , 1860–1922 (double stars) BAT99 — The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf–Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation) BCDSP — Bica-Claria-Dottori-Santos-Piatti BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars BD — Bonner Durchmusterung BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue 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 — Nils Bergvall (catalogue of some 400 interacting and distorted galaxies found on glass copies of the ESO Blue Survey) A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations, Volume 1 — H.C.Arp / B.F.Madore Be — Berkeley (open star clusters) (104 items) Be — Claes Bernes (dark nebulae) Bedin — Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Bedin I in Pavo) Ben — Jack Bennett / John Caister Bennett's catalogue of 152 deep-sky objects in the southern celestial hemisphere, all from the NGC or IC lists, except Ben 47 which is Melotte 105 in Carina, and Ben 72a which is Trumpler 23 in Norma Bergeron — Joe Bergeron (for example: Bergeron 1 in Cepheus) Sky & Telescope 12/'04, Page 86 BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark (galactic nebulae) (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus)Sky & Telescope 12/'04, page 87 BH — Van den Bergh / Hagen (open star clusters), see also VdB-Ha Bhas/Bha — T. P. Bhaskaran (double stars) Bi — Byurakan (open star clusters) Bica — Eduardo Luiz Damiani Bica (open star clusters) Bica / Schmitt (open star clusters) Big — Guillaume Bigourdan (double stars) Bird — F. Bird (double stars) Bl — Víctor Manuel Blanco (for example: open star cluster Blanco 1 in Sculptor) BlDz — Blaauw-Danziger (planetary nebulae) Bloch/Blo — Marie Bloch (double stars) Bo — Bochum Observatory (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) Bode — (telescopic asterisms) Boe — Ernest Augustus Boeger (double stars) Bogleiv (open star clusters) Bonatto — Charles José Bonatto (open star clusters) Boo — Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874–1965 (double stars) Boy — Charles Stuart Bowyer (double stars) BPI — (open star clusters) / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (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, also known as 'Regor') Brand / Wouterloot (BW) (open star clusters) Brey — Jacques Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf–Rayet stars BRI — Bj, R, I survey Briceno (open star clusters) — César Briceño (for example: Briceno 1 at the star 25 Orionis) BRHT — Bhatia-Read-Hatzidimitriou-Tritton Brosch — Noah Brosch (open star clusters) Brso/Bso — Brisbane Observatory, Australia (double stars) Brt — Samuel Goodwin Barton (double stars) Btz — Ernst Bernewitz (double stars) Bry — Walter William Bryant (double stars) BSDL — Bica-Schmitt-Dutra-Oliveira Cluster BV — Bohm-Vitense (planetary nebulae) BVD — Rafael Benavides Palencia (double stars)
C C — Caldwell catalogue (Sir Patrick Moore) Caballero-Solano — (for example: open star cluster Caballero-Solano 1 at Delta Orionis, also known as the Mintaka cluster) Calvet — Nuria Calvet (telescopic asterisms) Camargo — Denilso Camargo (open star clusters) Canali — (telescopic asterisms) Capo/Cpo — Cape Observatory, South Africa (double stars) CARMA Carpenter — (for example: Carpenter 1 at galactic coordinates 213.34 / -12.60) (= BDB 229, = FSR 1086, = MWSC 732) Carraro — (for example: open star cluster Carraro 1 at 10:37:00 / -58°44'00") (NW of the Eta Carinae Nebula) CBB — (open star clusters) CCCP-Cl — (open star clusters) CCCP-Gp — (open star clusters) CCCS — Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars CCDM — Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars CCO — Catalogue of Cometary Orbits CCS — General Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars CCS2 — General Catalog of S Stars, second edition CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung CDIMP — Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets CED — (gaseous nebula) CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet MagnitudesCelescope Catalog of Ultraviolet Stellar Observations. Magnetic Tape Version, R. J. Davis, W. A. Deutschman, K. L. Haramundanis, SAO Special Report #350 (1973), . Cezar — (for example: Cezar 6 at galactic coordinates 204.93 / -13.83) CF – Cape Observatory Faint Stars survey (Spencer Jones)Catalogue of 20554 faint stars in the Cape Astrographic Zone -40 deg. to -52 deg. For the equinox of 1900.0 giving positions, precessions, proper motions and photographic magnitudes. Royal Obs. Cape of Good Hope. London (on magnetic tape) Spencer Jones, H.; Jackson, J. (1939) CFBDSIR — Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed