List of astronomical catalogues


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 catalogs are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind.

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A

  • AB — Azzopardi / Breysacher
  • Abel
  • Abell — Abell catalogue
  • Abetti — Giorgio Abetti
  • Abt —
  • AC — Astrographic Catalogue
  • A.C. — Alvan Clark
  • Ac / Ack — Agnès Acker
  • A.G.C. — Alvan Graham Clark
  • AGC — Arecibo General Catalog
  • ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue
  • AFGL — Air Force Geophysical Laboratory
  • Ag — Aguero
  • AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
  • AH03 —
  • Al — Allen
  • Alden — H.L. Alden
  • 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
  • Alicante. 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
  • Aller — R.M. Aller
  • ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars
  • Alter
  • Alves / Yun
  • AM — Arp-Madore catalogue of open and globular star clusters
  • An — Anderson
  • Andrews / Lindsay
  • Annis
  • APEC — Asteroids Past Earth Close Encounters, Sormano Astronomical Observatory
  • APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
  • Apriamashvili
  • Ara —
  • Arak / Ark — Marat Arsen Arakelian, 1929–1983
  • Arce / Goodman
  • Archinal — probably Brent A. Archinal
  • Arg — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
  • ARO — Algonquin Radio Observatory
  • Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
  • ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409
  • Auner —
  • Av — Antalova
  • Av-Hunter — Aveni / Hunter
  • AXP — Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar
  • AZ / AzV — Azzopardi-Vigneau

B

  • β — S. W. Burnham
  • βpm — Burnham's measures of proper motion stars, 1913 catalogue.
  • B — Willem H. van den Bos
  • B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
  • B2 —  performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope
  • B3 —  performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope
  • Ba — Barnard
  • Ba — Baade
  • BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
  • Bail / Bal — R. Baillaud
  • Baize / Baz — Paul Baize
  • Balbinot
  • Bar — Barkhatova
  • BAR — E.E. Barton
  • Bas — Basel
  • Bat — Hans Battermann, 1860–1922
  • BAT99 — The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
  • BAY — Uranometria
  • BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
  • BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
  • BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue
  • BDS03 —
  • BDSB —
  • BDSB03 —
  • Be — Bergvall
  • Be — Berkeley
  • Be — Bernes
  • Bedin — Luigi Bedin
  • 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
  • BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark
  • BH — Van den Bergh / Hagen, see also VdB-Ha
  • Bhas/Bha — T.P. Bhaskavan
  • Bi — Biurakan
  • Bica —
  • Bica / Schmitt
  • Big — Guillaume Bigourdan
  • Bird — F. Bird
  • Bl — Victor Manuel Blanco
  • Bloch/Blo — M. Bloch
  • Bo — Bochum
  • Bo — Bond
  • BoBn — Boeshaar-Bond
  • Bode —
  • Boe — Boeger
  • Bogleiv
  • Bonatto
  • Boo — Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874–1965
  • Boy — Bowyer
  • BPI —
  • BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey
  • BPMA — Bordeaux Catalogue
  • Bradley
  • Brandt —
  • Brand / Wouterloot
  • Brey — Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf Rayet stars
  • BRI — Bj, R, I survey
  • Briceno
  • Brosch —
  • Brso/Bso — Brisbane Observatory, Australia
  • Brt — S.G. Barton
  • Btz — E. Bernewitz
  • Bry — Walter William Bryant
  • BV — Bohm-Vitense
  • BVD — R. Benavides

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F

  • F — Fath — Edward Arthur Fath, 1880–1959
  • Fa — Fairall
  • FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
  • Fei — Feinstein
  • Feibelman
  • Feigelson
  • Ferrero
  • Φ — W.S. Finsen
  • Fg — Fleming, for example: Fleming 1
  • FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
  • FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
  • Fle — J.O. Fleckenstein
  • FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica
  • For — L. Forgeron
  • Fox — Philip Fox
  • French — Sue French
  • Fr — Frolov
  • Franz — J. Franz
  • Frh — R. Furuhjelm
  • Frk — W.S. Franks
  • FSC — Faint Source Catalogue
  • FSR — Froebrich-Scholz-Raftery, I.R.
  • Fur — H.Furner

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H

  • h — John Herschel
  • H — Haro
  • H — Harvard
  • H — William Herschel
  • HA — ?
  • Haf — Haffner
  • Hall — Asaph Hall
  • HAT-P — HATNet Project, Hungarian Automated Telescope Network
  • HATS - HATNet Project, southern hemisphere.
  • HaTr — Hartl-Tritton
  • Haufen —
  • Hav/Moffat — Havlen-Moffat
  • Hb — Hubble
  • HC — Howell-Crisp
  • HCG — Hickson Compact Group
  • HCWils — H.C. Wilson
  • HD — Henry Draper Catalogue
  • HDE — Henry Draper Extension
  • HDEC — Henry Draper Extension Charts
  • HdO — Harvard Observatory USA, and stations elsewhere
  • HDW — Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger
  • Hdz — Harvard Zone Catalogues
  • HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey
  • He — Henize
  • Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
  • Hf — Hoffleit
  • HFG — Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull
  • HH — Herbig-Haro object
  • HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
  • HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
  • HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
  • Hld — E.S. Holden
  • Hlm — E. Holmes
  • Hln — Frank Holden
  • HN — William Herschel's 1821 catalogue
  • Ho — Hogg
  • Ho — G.W.Hough
  • Holmberg — Erik Holmberg
  • Hooke — Robert Hooke
  • Howe — H.A. Howe
  • HP — Haute Provence
  • HR — Bright Star Catalogue
  • Hrg — L. Hargrave
  • Hrr — Harrington
  • HΣ — Hermann Struve
  • HS — Hamburg Survey
  • HSC — Hubble Source Catalog
  • Hst — C.S. Hastings
  • Hu — Humason
  • Hu — W.J. Hussey
  • Hurt — Robert Hurt
  • Huygens — Christiaan Huygens
  • HV — Harvard Variable
  • HVGC — Hyper Velocity Globular Cluster
  • HVS — HyperVelocity Stars
  • Hynek — J. Allen Hynek
  • Hz — Wulff D. Heintz
  • Hzg — E. Hertzsprung

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J

K

  • K — Lubos Kohoutek
  • K — Köhler's Deepsky Catalogue
  • Ka — Valentina Karachentseva
  • Karhula —
  • — K2 catalog
  • KELT — Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
  • Kemble — Father Lucian Kemble
  • Kepler — Kepler catalog
  • Kes — Kesteven. For example: Kesteven 79
  • K / Kg — Ivan R. King
  • KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman
  • Kharchenko
  • KIC — Kepler Input Catalog
  • Kim — Dongwon Kim
  • KjPn — Kazaryan-Parsamyan
  • Klemola
  • KnFs — Kinman-Feast-Lasker
  • Knott / Kn — G. Knott
  • KOI — Kepler Object of Interest
  • Kontizas
  • Koposov
  • Kr — A.Kruger
  • Kron —
  • Kronberger —
  • Kru — E.C. Kruger
  • Ku — F. Kustner
  • KUG — Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies
  • Kui — Gerard P. Kuiper, 1905–73
  • KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object

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O

  • O — O'Neal
  • OCL — Open Clusters
  • OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogue
  • OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
  • Ol — Charles Pollard Olivier
  • Opik — Ernst J. Opik
  • OSC — Open Supernova Catalog
  • OΣ — Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue, 1843
  • OΣΣ — Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue Supplement, 1843
  • OSS — Ohio Sky Survey
  • OTC — Open TDE Catalog
  • OTS — Oasa-Tamura-Sugitani
  • Ou — Nicolas Outters .

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Q

  • Q —
  • QES — QATAR Exoplanet Survey
  • QSO — Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects
  • QZM —

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  • S — James South
  • Sa — Sanduleak
  • SA — Sandqvist
  • SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago
  • Saloranta — Jaakko Saloranta
  • SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
  • Saurer —
  • SaWe — Sanduleak-Weinberger
  • SAX — Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X
  • SC — Slough catalogue
  • Schb — John Martin Schaeberle
  • Schj — Hans Schjellerup
  • Schoenberg —
  • Schuster —
  • SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue.
  • Scott — J.L. Scott
  • SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
  • SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • * 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
  • Se — Sersic
  • See — T.J.J. See .
  • SEGUE — Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration
  • Sei — J. Scheiner
  • SGR — Soft Gamma Repeater
  • Sh — Sharpless catalog & Sh 2 )
  • Sh — Sher
  • S, h — James South / John Herschel
  • Shk — Romela Karapet Shakhbazian
  • Shorlin —
  • Simeis —
  • SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre, an all-sky survey in the near-infrared initiated in 2005 with the CPARIR camera.
  • Sinnott —
  • SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey
  • Sk — Skinner
  • SL — Sandqvist-Lindroos
  • Slr — R.P. Sellors
  • Smart — W.M. Smart
  • Smyth — W.H. Smyth
  • Sn — Shane
  • Sp — Giovanni Schiaparelli
  • Sp — Shapley
  • Spano —
  • SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars
  • SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue
  • SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
  • SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
  • SS — Sadler and Sharp
  • SS — Sanduleak-Stephenson
  • SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
  • SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
  • SSTDUSTG — DUSTiNGS (Dust in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer)
  • St — Carl L. Stearns
  • Ste — Stephenson
  • Stein — Johan Stein
  • Steine —
  • STF — Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, aka 'Struve the Father'
  • * ΣI — W. Struve, First Supplement
  • * ΣII — W. Struve, Second Supplement
  • StM – Charles Bruce Stephenson
  • St / Stock — Jürgen Stock
  • Stone — Ormond Stone
  • Streicher —
  • Stromlo —
  • StWr — Stock-Wroblewski
  • Sw — Swift
  • SWEEPS — Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
  • Swift
  • SwSt — Swings-Struve
  • SyO — Sydney Observatory, Australia

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