List of astronomical catalogues

An astronomical catalog 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.

Contents
0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Top of page — See also — References

0–9

• 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0^[1]
• 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite^[2]
• 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
• 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey^[1][3]
• 1FGL, 2FGL^[4] — 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
• 3A — see 1A
• 3C (and 3CR) — Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources (and revised)
• 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

• Abell — Abell catalogue
• AC — Astrographic Catalogue
• ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue
• AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
• ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars^[5]
• APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
• Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
• ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001)

B

• B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
• BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
• BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation)
• BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
• BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
• BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue
• Be — Berkeley open cluster list (104 items)
• BEN — Jack Bennett Catalog
• BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
• BRI — B_j, R, I survey

C

• C — Caldwell catalogue
• 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
• CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes^[6]
• CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars^[7]
• CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
• CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
• CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
• Col — Collinder catalog
• CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue
  • CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
• CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue^[8]
• CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
• CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications^[9]
• CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
• CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars

D

• DA — Dominion Observatory List A^[10]
• DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds ^[11]
• DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey
  • DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
• DM — Durchmusterung
  • BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
  • CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
  • CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
• DO — Dearborn Observatory
• DoDz - Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili open clusters catalogue (11 items)
• Dolidze - Dolidze clusters list (57 items)
• DR - Downes and Rinehart microwave sources

E

• EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey
• EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
• EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets
• ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog

F

• FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
• FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
• FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
• FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designation)
• FSC — Faint Source Catalogue

G

• G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)
  • GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas dwarf)
  • GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas red star)
  • HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas Hyades)
• GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
• GC (Boss) — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars
• GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities^[12]
• GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
• GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
• Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue
• GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue^[13]
  • GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey^[13]
• GSC — Guide Star Catalog
  • GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
• GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
  • GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
• Gum - Gum catalog of emission nebulae

H

• HD — Henry Draper Catalogue
• HCG — Hickson Compact Group
• HDE — Henry Draper Extension
• HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey
• Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
• HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
• HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
• HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
• HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue)

I

• IC — Index Catalogue
  • IC I — Index Catalogue I
  • IC II — Index Catalogue II
• IDS — Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
• IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source
• IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
• IRS — International Reference Star

J

• J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see for an article about it)
• JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.

K

• K2 - K2 (Kepler extended mission) catalog
• Kepler — Kepler catalog
• KIC — Kepler Input Catalog
• KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman
• KOI — Kepler Object of Interest
• KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object

L

• L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
• Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (Lacaille)
  • Lac I — Nebulae
  • Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters
  • Lac III — Nebulous Stars
• LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae
• LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
• LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue
• LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
• LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue
• LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue
• LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey
• LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
• LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below
• LSN — Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way
• LSPM — LSPM catalog - Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog
• LSR — Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue
• LSS — Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way
• LTT — Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue

M

• M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (Messier object)
• MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events (Massive Compact Halo Object)
  • MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
  • MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
• McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog
• MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
• MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford^[14]
• Mel - Melotte Catalogue of Deep Sky Objects
• MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
• MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources
• MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet

N

• N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30^[15]
• NGC — New General Catalogue
• NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog
• NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
• NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD)
• NStars — Nearby Stars Database
• NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars

O

• NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD)
• OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogue
• OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
• OSC — Open Supernova Catalog
• OSS — Ohio Sky Survey
• OTC — Open TDE Catalog

P

• PGC — Principal Galaxies Catalogue
• PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue^[16]
• PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek)
• PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins, Yale University)
• PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog^[17]
• PN — See PNG^[18]
• PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae^[19]
• PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues
• PTFO — Palomar Transient Factory

Q

• QSO — Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects

R

• RAFGL - Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (four color infrared sky survey)
• RC — Reference Catalogue
  • RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
  • RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
• RCW — A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way
• RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
• RNGC — Revised New General Catalogue
• Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars
• ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars^[20]
• RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
• RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Rossiter)
• RX — ROSAT observations

S

• SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago^[21]
• SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
• SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue.^[22][23]
• SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
• SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  • SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
  • 1SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1st release
  • 2SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
  • 3SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
• Sh — Sharpless catalog (Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2(1959))
• SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre
• SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey
• SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars
• SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue
• SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
• SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
• SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
• SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
• STF — Struve the Father double star
• Stock — Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in,^[24] Stock 3 to 23 in,^[25] Stock 24 in ^[26])

T

• TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog
• TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes (TD1 satellite)
• TIC — Tycho Input Catalog
• TrES — Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
  • TrES-And0 — TrES of planetary candidate in the Andromeda constellation
• TVLM — Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue
• TYC — Tycho Catalogue
  • TYC2 — Tycho-2 Catalogue
• Trumpler — Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters

U

• UBV — Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968)
• UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987)
• UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1, UCAC2 and UCAC3)
• UGC — Uppsala General Catalogue
• USNO — US Naval Observatory
  • USNO-A1.0 — US Naval Observatory, A1.0 catalogue
  • USNO-A2.0 — US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue
  • USNO-B1.0 — US Naval Observatory, B1.0 catalogue
• uvby98 — uvbyβ photoelectric photometric catalogue, by B. Hauck, M. Mermilliod, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 129, 431-433 (1998)

V

• vB — Van Biesbroeck's star catalog, variant, "VB"
• VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog
• VdB — Van den Bergh (catalogue of reflection nebulae)

W

• W - Radiosource (Westerhout)
• W20 — Washington 20 Catalog
• WASP — Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
• WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
• WDS — Washington Double Star Catalog
• WISE — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
• WISEP — ?
• WNC — Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars
• Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue
• Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars (Wolf)
• WR — Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars

X

• XBS — XMM-Newton, Bright Source
• XBSS — XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey
• XEST — XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular
  • XEST-OM — XEST, Optical/UV Monitor
• XTE — X-ray Timing Explorer

Y

• YZ — Yale Observatory Zone Catalog

Z

• Z — Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies

• Book of Fixed Stars
• Tables of Toledo
• Zij-i Ilkhani
• Zij-i-Sultani

See also

• List of astronomy acronyms
• List of common astronomy symbols
• Glossary of astronomy
• Modern constellations

Notes and references

1. See p. 20, X-ray sources in SIMBAD, J. M. Hameury, C. Motch, and M. Pakull, Bull. Inf. Centre Données Stellaires 47, pp. 19–20, Bibcode: 1995BICDS..47...19H.
2. p. 19, X-ray sources in SIMBAD.
3. The Einstein Slew Survey, Martin Elvis, David Plummer, Jonathan Schachter, and G. Fabbiano, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 80, #1 (May 1992), pp. 257–303, Bibcode: 1992ApJS...80..257E, doi:10.1086/191665.
4. See the Fermi Science Support Center at NASA, or directly the paper: Pat Nolan et al. (the Fermi LAT Collaboration) "Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog", Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 199, 31 (2012) doi:10.1088/0067-0049/199/2/31
5. Reed, B.C., Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 115, 271-276 (1998)
6. Celescope Catalog of Ultraviolet Stellar Observations. Magnetic Tape Version, R. J. Davis, W. A. Deutschman, K. L. Haramundanis, SAO Special Report #350 (1973), Bibcode: 1973SAOSR.350....1D.
8. Cape Photographic Catalog 1950.0 (CPC) (Jackson+ 1954-1968), database, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
9. See Microfiche Edition of CSI, F. Ochsenbein, M. Bischoff, and D. Egret, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 43 (February 1981), pp. 259–264, Bibcode: 1981A&AS...43..259O, and S.I.M.B.A.D. Story: A Description of the Data Base of the Strasbourg Stellar Data Center, D. Egret, Bull. d'Inf. Cent. Données Stellaires 24 (March 1983), pp. 109–123, Bibcode: 1983BICDS..24..109E.
10. J.A. Galt, J.E.D. Kennedy, Survey of radio sources observed in the continuum near 1420 MHz, declinations -5 to +70, Astron. J., 73, 135-151 (1968)
11. A catalogue of southern dark clouds, Hartley M., Manchester R.N., Smith R.M., Tritton S.B., Goss W.M., Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 63, 27 (1986), 1986A&AS...63...27H
12. General catalogue of stellar radial velocities, Ralph Elmer Wilson, Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1953, Bibcode: 1953QB901.W495......
14. W.W. Morgan, A.D. Code, A.E. Whitford, Studies in galactic structure. II. Luminosity classification for 1270 blue giants stars. Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 2, 41-74 (1955)
15. H. R. Morgan, Astron. Papers Amer. Ephemeris 13, Part III (1952). CDS ID I/80.
16. Faint Blue Stars in the Region near the South Galactic Pole, G. Haro and W. J. Luyten, Boletín de los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya 3 (1962), pp. 37–117, Bibcode: 1962BOTT....3...37H; CDS ID III/74.
17. CDS IDs I/186, I/167, I/187, I/188, I/198, and I/248.
18. http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/nebula-catalog/plnebulae.html
19. CDS IDs V/84
20. Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars, Akira Uesugi and Ichiro Fukuda, Contributions from the Institute of Astrophysics and Kwasan Observatory, University of Kyoto, Kyoto: University, Kwasan Observatory, Institute of Astrophysics, 1970, Bibcode: 1970crvs.book.....U.
21. F. Noel, Second astrolabe catalogue of Santiago, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 106, 441-450 (1994)
22. http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/Dic-Simbad?SCM
23. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992A%26AS...96...23S
24. Stock, J (1956). "Magnitudes and Colors for Stars in Two New Galactic Clusters". Astrophysical Journal 123: 258–265. Bibcode:1956ApJ...123..258S. doi:10.1086/146158.
25. Alter, G., J. Ruprecht, V. Vanysek. 1958. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Prague: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
26. Alter, G., B. Balazs, and J. Ruprecht. 1970. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiado

• VizieR
• CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
• Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects