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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.
This is a list of NGC objects 1–1000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters , nebulae , and galaxies . Other objects in the catalogue can be found in the other subpages of the list of NGC objects .
The Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars was first published in 1786 by William Herschel in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. [1] In 1789, he added another 1,000 entries, [2] and finally another 500 in 1802, [3] bringing the total to 2,500 entries.
NGC 169 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered on September 18, 1857, by R. J. Mitchell. [2] NGC 169 has a smaller companion named NGC 169A, also designated IC1559. The two are currently interacting, and the pair is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. [3]
NGC 1220 is a young compact open cluster in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1831. [5] The cluster is located at l = 143.04°, b = −3.96° in the galactic coordinate system, and is 120 parsecs above the galactic plane. [1] [2] It is approximately 6 m 42 s east and 10′ 12″ south from the nearest visible star ...
NGC 341 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 21, 1881 by Édouard Stephan . It was described by Dreyer as "faint, pretty large, round, a little brighter middle, mottled but not resolved."
NGC 7619 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. [2] NGC 7619 and NGC 7626 [ 3 ] are the dominant and brightest members of the Pegasus galaxy cluster . [ 4 ] Both of them were discovered by William Herschel on September 26, 1785.
The Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 H II regions (emission nebulae) intended to be comprehensive north of declination −27°.(It does include some nebulae south of that declination as well.)