Astronomical catalogues Astronomical catalogues 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 coordinates, and flux density. The observations were made with the Cambridge Interferometer, at 81.5 MHz. ...more on Wikipedia about "2C"
: 3C also refers to the three big "C"'s. An emergent term for Computing, Communications and Consumer electronics products and companies. ...more on Wikipedia about "3C"
The Fifth Cambridge Catalog 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 of Cambridge. The One-Mile Telescope used to produce this catalogue had an angular resolutions of 80 arcseconds and 23 arcseconds at 408 MHz and 1407 MHz respectively, and cataloged radio sources as faint as 2 milli- Janskys, considerably fainter than any previously cataloged radio source. ...more on Wikipedia about "5C"
The 6C Survey of radio sources ( 6C) is an astronomical catalogue of celestial radio sources as measured at 151-MHz. It was published between 1985 and 1993 by the Radio Astronomy Group of the University of Cambridge. ...more on Wikipedia about "6C"
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 Ogden Abell’s original “Northern Survey” of 1958, which had only 2,712 clusters, with a further 1,361 clusters – the “Southern Survey” of 1989 – from those parts of the south celestial hemisphere that had been omitted from the earlier survey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Abell catalogue"
An astronomical catalog or catalogue is a list or tabulation of astronomical objects, typically grouped together because they share a common type, morphology, origin, means of detection, or method of discovery. Astronomical catalogs are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Astronomical catalog"
Halton Arp produced the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which lists peculiar galaxies by Arp number. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies"
Many of the brighter stars are given names which are known as Bayer designations. These designations, which were introduced by Johann Bayer in his star atlas Uranometria (named after Urania) in 1603, consist of a Greek letter followed by the genitive (in Latin) of the name of the constellation in which the star lies. See List of constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their names. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bayer designation"
The Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG) was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961– 68, and contains 9134 galaxy clusters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies"
Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters. Each star is assigned a number and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in (see List of constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their names). ...more on Wikipedia about "Flamsteed designation" http://www.shortopedia.com - now! Astronomical_catalogues
The General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters was published in 1864 by John Herschel. It was combined with other observations to produce the New General Catalogue in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer. The GC catalogued nebulae, contained 5,000 entries, half of the observations by father William Herschel, half by son John. Later, a complementary edition of the catalog was published posthumously as the General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Catalogue"
The Guide Star Catalog (GSC) is also known as the Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog (HSTGC). It is a star catalogue built to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targetting off-axis stars. It contains approximately 20,000,000 celestial bodies with apparent magnitudes of 6 to 15. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guide Star Catalog"
The Guide Star Catalog II was compiled by the Catalog and Surveys branch of the Space Telescope Science Institute. It has 998,402,801 coordinate entries most of which are distinct astronomical objects, and has positions, classifications, and magnitudes for 455,851,237 objects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guide Star Catalog II"
The Henry Draper Catalogue is an astronomy catalogue with astrometric and spectroscopic data about more than 225,000 stars. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Draper Catalogue"
The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (Tycho-1) are the primary products of the European Space Agency's astrometric mission, Hipparcos. The satellite, which operated for four years, returned high quality scientific data from November 1989 to March 1993. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hipparcos Catalogue"
The Index Catalogue (IC) —also known as the Index Catalogue of Nebulae, the Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, IC I, or IC II— is a catalogue of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters that serves as a supplement to the New General Catalogue. It was first published in 1895, and has been expanded to list more than 5,000 objects, known as the IC objects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Index Catalogue"
The Principal Galaxies Catalogue (PGC) is an astronomical catalogue that contains all available primary information for each of the known galaxies: morphological type, major and minor axes, magnitude, radial velocity and position angle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Principal Galaxies Catalogue"
The Revised New General Catalogue (RNGC) is a revision to the original New General Catalogue made by J. L. E. Dreyer. Some of the brightnesses of objects measured by Dreyer were not accurate or the desciption of the object was not accurate. Therefore they were revised. Most planetarium computer programs use the RNGC and the RIC as a source for their Deep Sky object dataset. ...more on Wikipedia about "Revised New General Catalogue"
The Rudolphine Tables ( Latin: Tabulae Rudolphinae) consist of a star catalog and planetary tables published by Johannes Kepler in 1627. They contain positions for 1,005 stars with directions and tables for locating the planets of the solar system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rudolphine Tables"
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 years, and this article covers only some of the more frequently quoted ones. Most of the recent catalogues are available in electronic format and can be freely downloaded from NASA's Astronomical Data Center and other places (see links at end). ...more on Wikipedia about "Star catalogue" My http://www.shortopedia.com is mine.
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