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  2. Star catalogue - Wikipedia

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    Star catalogue. An illustration of the constellation Perseus (after Perseus from Greek mythology) from the star atlas published by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690. A star catalogue is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers.

  3. List of astronomical catalogues - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. New General Catalogue - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and emission nebulae. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index ...

  5. Caldwell catalogue - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog - Wikipedia

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    The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog is an astrometric star catalogue, created by Smithsonian Institution, a research institute. It was published by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1966 and contains 258,997 stars. [1][2][3][4] The catalogue was compiled from various previous astrometric catalogues, and contains ...

  7. Henry Draper Catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Henry Draper Catalogue (HD) is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension (HDE), published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the Henry Draper Extension Charts (HDEC), published from 1937 to 1949 in the form of charts ...

  8. Stellar designations and names - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, stars have a variety of different stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names. Only a tiny minority of known stars have proper names; all others have only designations from various catalogues or lists, or no identifier at all.

  9. Astronomical catalog - Wikipedia

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    Sir Patrick Moore compiled the Caldwell catalogue in 1995 to complement the Messier catalog, listing 109 bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies named C1 to C109. This is a list of deep-sky objects of interest to amateur astronomy and not a catalog in the professional science sense. Other deep-sky observing lists for amateur astronomers ...

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