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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0–9
- 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0
- 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite
- 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey
- 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
- 3A — see 1A
- 3C — Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 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
- 8C — Eighth Cambridge Survey
- 8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec
- 9C — Ninth Cambridge survey at 15GHz
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
C
- C — Caldwell catalogue
- Caballero-Solano —
- Calvet —
- Camargo —
- Canali —
- Capo/Cpo — Cape Observatory, South Africa
- CARMA
- Carpenter —
- Carraro —
- CBB —
- CCCP-Cl —
- CCCP-Gp —
- 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 — Cederblad
- CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes
- Cezar —
- CFBDSIR — Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed
- CG — Cometary Globule
- 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 —
- Chatard —
- Che — P. S. Chevalier
- Chereul —
- Chiravalle —.
- Chupina —
- CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
- CLUST —
- CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
- Cn — Cannon
- Cog — Cogshall
- Col — Collins
- Com — G. C. Comstock
- Cop — Copeland
- Coro/Coo — Cordoba Observatory, Argentina
- CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue
- * CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
- Cou — Paul Couteau
- CP — Cambridge Pulsar
- CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue
- CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- Cr — Collinder
- Crinklaw —
- CRL — Cambridge Research Laboratory Sky-Survey
- Cruls/Cru — L. Cruls
- CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications
- CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
- CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars
- Cz — Czernik
D
- D — James Dunlop
- DA — Dominion Observatory List A
- Danjon — Andre Danjon
- Danks —
- Dawes — W.R. Dawes
- δ — B.H. Dawson
- DBSB03, I.R. —
- DB2000
- DB2001
- DC —
- DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds
- DDO — David Dunlap Observatory
- DeHt — Dengel-Hartl
- Dem — Ercole Dembowski
- DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
- * DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
- Desvoivres —
- DHW — Dengel-Hartl-Weinberger
- Dias — Wilton S. Dias, UNIFEI
- Dick — J. Dick
- Djorg — Stanislav George Djorgovski
- Dju — P. Djurkovic
- DM — Durchmusterung
- * BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- * CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
- * CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- DN — Duus-Newell
- DnB —
- DO — Dearborn Observatory
- Do — Dolidze
- Dob — A.W. Doberck
- Dom — Jean Dommanget
- Don — H.F. Donner
- Donatiello — Giuseppe Donatiello
- Doo — Eric Doolittle
- DoDz — Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili
- Dorpat — Dorpat Observatory, Estonia
- DR — Downes and Rinehart microwave sources
- Du — Duner
- Δ — James Dunlop
- Dutra-Bica
- DWB — Dickel, Wendker, Bieritz
- Dwingeloo — Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey
E
- E —
- EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey
- Edg — D.W. Edgecomb
- — Eckart + Genzel, 1997
- Egb — Egbert
- EGB — Ellis-Grayson-Bond
- Eggen — Olin J. Eggen
- EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
- Elosser —
- EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets
- Eng — Engelmann
- EPIC — Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog
- Escorial —
- ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog, ESO/Uppsala catalog
- Esp — T. E. H. Espin
- Es/Birm — Espin/Birmingham
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
G
- G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- * GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- * GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- * HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- Gale — W.F. Gale
- Gallo — J. Gallo
- GAn — G. Anderson
- Gaia catalogues
- * Gaia DR1
- * Gaia DR2
- * Gaia EDR3
- * Gaia DR3
- GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
- GC — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars
- GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities
- GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
- GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
- Giclas — Henry L. Giclas
- Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue
- GJJC — Gillett-Jacoby-Joyce-Cohen
- Gli — J.M. Gilliss
- GLIMPSE —
- Glp — S. de Glasenapp
- GM — Gyulbudaghian-Maghakian
- Gol — H. Goldschmidt
- GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue
- * GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey
- Goyal — A.N. Goyal
- Graham
- Gr — Grant
- Grasdalen
- GR — Gibson Reaves
- GRB — Gamma Ray Burst
- Grindlay
- GRO — Gamma Ray Observatory
- Groombridge
- GSC — Guide Star Catalog
- * GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
- GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
- * GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
- Gsh — J. Glaisher
- GΣ — G. Struve
- Gtb — K. Gottlieb
- Gui — J. Guillaume
- Gum — Gum catalog of emission nebulae