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This catalogue originated the usage of letters and catalogue numbers as identifiers. The capital "H" followed with the catalogue entry number represented the item. [4] In 1864, the CN was expanded into the General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (GC) by John Herschel (William's son). [5] The GC contained 5,079 entries.
h — John Herschel (double stars) H — Haro (planetary nebulae) H — Harvard (open star clusters) H — William Herschel (double stars) HA — ? (for example: galaxy HA 85 in Telescopium, see chart 26 in Wil Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0) (however, chart 435 in Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 2, 1987 edition, shows this object as ESO 183-G30)
In this letter Mr. Mullaney suggested that William Herschel's original catalogue of 2,500 objects would be an excellent basis for deep sky object selection for amateur astronomers looking for a challenge after completing the Messier Catalogue. The Herschel 400 is a subset of John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters published in ...
Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars catalogued by William and Caroline Herschel; Catalogues published by John Herschel. General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, catalogued by John Herschel; J.L.E. Dreyer's New General Catalogue and Index Catalogues, which expanded on the William, Caroline, John Herschel catalogues; Herschel ...
Nebulae become visible if the gas glows, or if the cloud reflects starlight or obscures light from more distant objects. The catalogues that it may refer to: Catalogue des nébuleuses et des amas d'étoiles (Messier "M" catalogue) first published 1771; Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (William Herschel 'CN'/"H" catalogue) first ...
Boss General Catalogue, an astronomical catalogue compiled by Benjamin Boss and published in the U.S. in 1936 General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters , an astronomical catalogue by John Herschel expanding on the work of his father William Herschel
1771 — Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae; 1824 — Urania's Mirror by Sidney Hall; 1862 — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the Bonner Durchmusterung catalog of stars north of declination-1°. 1864 — John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters
The original New General Catalogue was compiled during the 1880s by John Louis Emil Dreyer using observations from William Herschel and his son John, among others.Dreyer had already published a supplement to Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters (GC), [2] containing about 1,000 new objects.