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Markov (telescopic asterisms) (for example: Markov 1 in Hercules) MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image. Mayall — Nicholas Mayall (for example: globular star cluster Mayall II orbiting Messier 31, the Andromeda galaxy) Mayer (open star clusters) McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog. MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies.
Caldwell catalogue. Montage of Caldwell Catalogue objects. The Caldwell catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue. [1]
Astronomical catalogues of galaxies (7 C, 10 P) Astronomical catalogues of galaxy clusters (2 C, 5 P) Astronomical catalogues of nebulae (3 C, 5 P) Astronomical catalogues of planets (1 C) Astronomical catalogues of stars (15 C, 50 P)
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Durchmusterung. In astronomy, Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung ( BD) is an astrometric star catalogue of the whole sky, published by the Bonn Observatory in Germany from 1859 to 1863, with an extension published in Bonn in 1886. The name comes from Durchmusterung ('run-through examination'), a German word used for a systematic survey of ...
Appearance. hide. Boss General Catalogue ( GC, sometimes General Catalogue) is an astronomical catalogue containing 33,342 stars. [1] It was compiled by Benjamin Boss (who lived from 1880 to 1970 [2]) and published in the United States in 1936. [3] Its original name was General Catalogue of 33,342 Stars [4] and it superseded the previous ...
Guide Star Catalog. The Guide Star Catalog ( GSC ), also known as the Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog ( HSTGC ), is a star catalog compiled to support the Hubble Space Telescope with targeting off-axis stars. GSC-I contained approximately 20,000,000 stars with apparent magnitudes of 6 to 15. GSC-II contains 945,592,683 stars out to ...
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