An astronomical catalogue 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.
0–9 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey 1FGL, 2FGL — 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 2MASX — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Extended source catalogue 2MASS-GC (Globular Clusters, I.R.) (2MASS-GC 01 and 2MASS-GC 02 are Hurt 1 and Hurt 2) (source: Bruno Alessi) 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 AAVSO — American Association of Variable Star Observers AB — Azzopardi / Breysacher (Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC) Abel (globular star clusters) Abell — Abell catalogue Abetti — Giorgio Abetti (double stars) Abt — (for example: open star cluster Abt 1 = Biurakan 4 = Markarian 6 = Stock 7) (at 2:29.6 / +60°39' near the southwestern section of the Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia) AC — Astrographic Catalogue A.C. — Alvan Clark (double stars) Ac / Ack — Agnès Acker (planetary nebulae) A.G.C. — Alvan Graham Clark (double stars) AGC — Arecibo General Catalog ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue AFGL — Air Force Geophysical Laboratory Ag — Aguero (catalogue of peculiar galaxies, captured during the National Geographic Society — Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) (POSS) AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog AH03 — (star clusters) (source: Bruno Alessi's list) Al — Allen (planetary nebulae) Alden — H.L. Alden (double stars) Alessi — Bruno Sampaio Alessi's catalogue of telescopic asterisms and open star clusters Alessi / Teutsch — Bruno S. Alessi's and Philipp Teutsch's catalogue of telescopic asterisms and open star clusters Ali — H. Ali (double stars) Alicante (for example: open star cluster Alicante 1 at 3:59:18 / +57°14'14", in Camelopardalis). Alicante 1 looks like a chain of dim stars with two relatively bright accompanying stars known as TYC 3725-498-1 and TYC 3725-866-1 (source: Wikisky) Aller — R.M. Aller (double stars) (Ramón María Aller Ulloa?) ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars Alter (open star clusters) (for example: Alter 1 at 0:31:56.9 / +63°09'47" in Cassiopeia) (Alter 1 = King 14 = Alter Cluster) Alves / Yun (open star clusters) AM — Arp-Madore catalogue of open and globular star clusters (Halton Arp / Barry F. Madore) (for example: Arp-Madore 1 in Horologium, Arp-Madore 2 in Puppis) An — Anderson (double stars) Andrews / Lindsay (AL) (open star clusters) (for example: Andrews-Lindsay 1 at 13:15:16 / -65°55'12" in Musca) (AL 1 is also known as vdB-Hagen 144) Annis (?) APEC — Asteroids Past Earth Close Encounters, Sormano Astronomical Observatory APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine Apriamashvili (open star clusters) (the open star cluster Basel 1 at about one degree WNW of Messier 11 is also known as the Apriamashvili cluster) Ara — (for example: Ara 2035 at 7:08.8/-24°03' in Canis Major) (S.Aravamudan?) Arak / Ark — Marat Arsen Arakelian, 1929–1983 (Arakelian Emission Line Objects) Arce / Goodman (open star clusters) Archinal — probably Brent A. Archinal (for example: open star cluster Archinal 1 at 18:54:49 / +5°32'54" in Serpens Cauda) Arg — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (double stars) ARO — Algonquin Radio Observatory Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001) Auner — (for example: open star cluster Auner 1 at 7:04:16 / -19°45'00" in Canis Major) (Auner 1 is the cluster which was "lost" in the disturbing ghost reflection of nearby Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius, this during the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, POSS) Av — Antalova (open star clusters) (for example: Antalova 1 at 17:28:55 / -31°34'11' in Scorpius) Av-Hunter — Aveni / Hunter (open star clusters) (for example: Aveni-Hunter 1 at 23:37:48 / +48°31'12", north of the former constellation Honores Friderici in Andromeda) AXP — Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar AZ / AzV — Azzopardi-Vigneau
B β — S. W. Burnham (double stars) βpm — Burnham's measures of proper motion stars, 1913 catalogue. B — Willem H. van den Bos (double stars) B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae B2 — Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz (9929 radio sources) performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope B3 — The New Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz (13354 radio sources) performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope Ba — Barnard (double stars) Ba — Baade (planetary nebulae) BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog Bail / Bal — R. Baillaud (double stars) Baize / Baz — Paul Baize (Paul Achille-Ariel Baize, 1901–1995) (double stars) Balbinot (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster Balbinot 1 in Pegasus) Bar — Barkhatova (open star clusters) (for example: Barkhatova 1, NNW of NGC 7000; the North America Nebula in Cygnus) BAR — E.E. Barton (double stars) Bas — Basel (open star clusters) (for example: Basel 1 at about one degree WNW of open star cluster Messier 11 in Scutum) (Basel 1 is also known as the Apriamashvili cluster) Bat — Hans Battermann, 1860–1922 (double stars) BAT99 — The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation) BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars BD — Bonner Durchmusterung BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue BDS03 (I.R.) — (open star clusters) BDSB — (for example: open star cluster BDSB 96 at 7:05:18 / -12°19'44") BDSB03 (I.R.) — (open star clusters) Be — Bergvall (catalogue of some 400 interacting and distorted galaxies found on glass copies of the ESO Blue Survey) Be — Berkeley (open star clusters) (104 items) Be — Bernes (dark nebulae) Bedin — Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Bedin I in Pavo) Ben — Jack Bennett's catalogue of 152 deep-sky objects in the southern celestial hemisphere, all from the NGC or IC lists, except Ben 47 which is Melotte 105 in Carina, and Ben 72a which is Trumpler 23 in Norma Bergeron — Joe Bergeron (for example: Bergeron 1 in Cepheus) BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus) BH — Van den Bergh / Hagen (open star clusters), see also VdB-Ha Bhas/Bha — T.P. Bhaskavan (double stars) Bi — Biurakan (open star clusters) Bica — (open star clusters) Bica / Schmitt (open star clusters) Big — Guillaume Bigourdan (double stars) Bird — F. Bird (double stars) Bl — Victor Manuel Blanco (for example: open star cluster Blanco 1 in Sculptor) Bloch/Blo — M. Bloch (double stars) Bo — Bochum (open star clusters) Bo — Bond (double stars) BoBn — Boeshaar-Bond (planetary nebulae) (for example: BoBn 1, an extragalactic planetary nebula at 0:37 / -13°42' in Cetus) Bode — (telescopic asterisms) Boe — Boeger (double stars) Bogleiv (open star clusters) Bonatto (open star clusters) Boo — Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874–1965 (double stars) Boy — Bowyer (double stars) BPI — (open star clusters) BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten) BPMA — Bordeaux Catalogue (double stars) Bradley Brandt — (for example: open star cluster Brandt 1 at 8:09:32 / -47°20'12") ( = Pozzo 1) (very near Gamma Velorum, also known as 'Regor') Brand / Wouterloot (BW) (open star clusters) Brey — Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf Rayet stars BRI — Bj, R, I survey Briceno (open star clusters) (for example: Briceno 1 at the star 25 Orionis) Brosch — (open star clusters) Brso/Bso — Brisbane Observatory, Australia (double stars) Brt — S.G. Barton (double stars) Btz — E. Bernewitz (double stars) Bry — Walter William Bryant (double stars) BV — Bohm-Vitense (planetary nebulae) BVD — R. Benavides (double stars)
C C — Caldwell catalogue (Sir Patrick Moore) Caballero-Solano — (for example: open star cluster Caballero-Solano 1 at Delta Orionis, also known as the Mintaka cluster) Calvet — (telescopic asterisms) Camargo — (open star clusters) Canali — (telescopic asterisms) Capo/Cpo — Cape Observatory, South Africa (double stars) CARMA Carpenter — (for example: Carpenter 1 at galactic coordinates 213.34 / -12.60) (= BDB 229, = FSR 1086, = MWSC 732) Carraro — (for example: open star cluster Carraro 1 at 10:37:00 / -58°44'00") (NW of the Eta Carinae Nebula) CBB — (open star clusters) CCCP-Cl — (open star clusters) CCCP-Gp — (open star clusters) CCCS — Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars 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 CED — Cederblad (gaseous nebula) CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes Cezar — (for example: Cezar 6 at galactic coordinates 204.93 / -13.83) CF – Cape Observatory Faint Stars survey (Spencer Jones) CFBDSIR — Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed CG — Cometary Globule (for example: CG 4 in Puppis, also known as 'God's Hand') CGCG — Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies CGCS — Catalogue of Galactic Cool Carbon Stars CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars Chaple — (for example: Chaple 1 at galactic coordinates 74.46 / +3.66, which is an asterism called Chaple's Arc, and also Cygnus Fairy Ring, and HD 190466 Group, and Ramakers 20) Chatard — (telescopic asterisms) Che — P. S. Chevalier (double stars) Chereul — (moving groups of stars) Chiravalle — (for example: Chiravalle 1 in Hercules, at galactic coordinates 75.25 / +27.91, which is an asterism called Candle and Holder). Chupina — (Chupina objects 1 to 5 are located at and near open star cluster Messier 67 in Cancer) CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations CLUST — (open star clusters) CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue Cn — Cannon (planetary nebulae) (Cn1 / Cn2 / Cn3) Cog — Cogshall (double stars) Col — Collins (double stars) Com — G. C. Comstock (double stars) Cop — Copeland (double stars) Coro/Coo — Cordoba Observatory, Argentina (double stars) CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue Cou — Paul Couteau (double stars) CP — Cambridge Pulsar CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung Cr — Collinder (open star clusters) (Per Collinder) Crinklaw — (telescopic asterisms) CRL — Cambridge Research Laboratory Sky-Survey (three color infrared sky survey) Cruls/Cru — L. Cruls (double stars) CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars Cz — Czernik (open star clusters)
D D — James Dunlop (A catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars in the southern hemisphere, observed at Parramatta in New South Wales) DA — Dominion Observatory List A Danjon — Andre Danjon (double stars) Danks — (open star clusters) (for example: Danks 1 & 2, located near the northeastern Centaurus section of the Coalsack Nebula) Dawes — W.R. Dawes (double stars) δ — B.H. Dawson (double stars) DBSB03, I.R. — (open star clusters) DB2000 (Dutra-Bica 2000, I.R.) (open star clusters) DB2001 (Dutra-Bica 2001, I.R.) (open star clusters) DC — (open star clusters) DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds DDO — David Dunlap Observatory (Dwarf Galaxies) DeHt — Dengel-Hartl (planetary nebulae) (for example: DeHt 1 at 5:55 / -22°54' in Lepus) Dem — Ercole Dembowski (double stars) DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation Desvoivres — (telescopic asterisms) DHW — Dengel-Hartl-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) Dias — Wilton S. Dias, UNIFEI (open star clusters) Dick — J. Dick (double stars) Djorg — Stanislav George Djorgovski (globular star clusters) (for example: Djorgovski 1 in Scorpius) Dju — P. Djurkovic (double stars) DM — Durchmusterung BD — Bonner Durchmusterung CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung DN — Duus-Newell (Catalogue of Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies) (Alan Duus / Barry Newell) DO — Dearborn Observatory Do — Dolidze (open star clusters) (57 items) Dob — A.W. Doberck (double stars) Dom — Jean Dommanget (double stars) Don — H.F. Donner (double stars) Donatiello — Giuseppe Donatiello (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Donatiello I in Andromeda) Doo — Eric Doolittle (double stars) DoDz — Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili (open star clusters) (11 items) Dorpat — Dorpat Observatory, Estonia DR — Downes and Rinehart microwave sources Du — Duner (double stars) Δ — James Dunlop (double stars) Dutra-Bica (open star clusters) DWB — Dickel, Wendker, Bieritz (A catalogue of optically visible HII regions in the Cygnus X region) Dwingeloo — Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey (DOGS) (for example: Dwingeloo 1 and Dwingeloo 2 in Cassiopeia)
E E — (for example: globular star cluster E 3 at 9:20:59 / -77°16'57", in Chamaeleon) (source: Bruno Alessi's and Wilton Dias's lists) EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey Edg — D.W. Edgecomb (double stars) [EG97] — Eckart + Genzel, 1997 (Stars close to Sagittarius A*, like [EG97]S2.) Egb — Egbert (double stars) EGB — Ellis-Grayson-Bond (planetary nebulae) Eggen — Olin J. Eggen (double stars) EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star Elosser — (telescopic asterisms) EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets Eng — Engelmann (double stars) EPIC — Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog Escorial — (open star clusters) ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog, ESO/Uppsala catalog Esp — T. E. H. Espin (double stars) Es/Birm — Espin/Birmingham (catalogue of red stars)
F F — Fath — Edward Arthur Fath, 1880–1959 (for example: galaxy Fath 703, aka NGC 5892, in Libra) Fa — Fairall (Anthony Patrick Fairall, 1943–2008) FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue Fei — Feinstein (open star clusters) (for example: Feinstein 1 at 11:05:56 / -59°49'00" in Carina) Feibelman (for example: open star cluster Feibelman 1 near 'The Revenante of the Swan' 34-P Cygni) Feigelson (for example: open star cluster Feigelson 1 at 11:59:51 / -78°12'27", in Chamaeleon, at the binary star Epsilon Chamaeleonis) Ferrero (telescopic asterisms) Φ — W.S. Finsen (double stars) Fg — Fleming (planetary nebulae), for example: Fleming 1 FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue Fle — J.O. Fleckenstein (double stars) FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designation) For — L. Forgeron (double stars) Fox — Philip Fox (double stars) French — Sue French (from Sky and Telescope) Fr — Frolov (open star clusters) (for example: Frolov 1 at 23:57:25 / +61°37'48" in Cassiopeia) Franz — J. Franz (double stars) Frh — R. Furuhjelm (double stars) Frk — W.S. Franks (double stars and colours of stars) (probably William Sadler Franks, published a catalogue of the colours of 3890 stars) FSC — Faint Source Catalogue FSR — Froebrich-Scholz-Raftery, I.R. (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster FSR 1758 in Scorpius) Fur — H.Furner (double stars)
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) Gale — W.F. Gale (double stars) Gallo — J. Gallo (double stars) GAn — G. Anderson (double stars) Gaia catalogues (general purpose) Gaia DR1 Gaia DR2 Gaia EDR3 Gaia DR3 GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters GC (Boss) — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars Giclas — Henry L. Giclas (double stars) Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue GJJC — Gillett-Jacoby-Joyce-Cohen (planetary nebulae) Gli — J.M. Gilliss (double stars) GLIMPSE — (together with Mercer in the list of 10978 star clusters) Glp — S. de Glasenapp (double stars) GM — Gyulbudaghian-Maghakian (planetary nebulae) Gol — H. Goldschmidt (double stars) GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey Goyal — A.N. Goyal (double stars) Graham (for example: open star cluster Graham 1 at 10:56:32 / -63:01:04 in Carina) Gr — Grant (double stars) Grasdalen (open star clusters) GR — Gibson Reaves (for example: Gibson Reaves 8 (GR 8) (galaxy) in Virgo) (Gibson Reaves, 1923–2005) GRB — Gamma Ray Burst Grindlay (globular star clusters) (for example: Grindlay 1 in Scorpius, at 17:32.0 / -33°50') GRO — Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA — Compton) Groombridge (Stephen Groombridge, 1755–1832) GSC — Guide Star Catalog GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd Gsh — J. Glaisher (double stars) GΣ — G. Struve (double stars) Gtb — K. Gottlieb (double stars) Gui — J. Guillaume (double stars) Gum — Gum catalog of emission nebulae
H 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) Haf — Haffner (open star clusters) Hall — Asaph Hall (double stars) HAT-P — HATNet Project, Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (search for extrasolar planets) HATS - HATNet Project, southern hemisphere. HaTr — Hartl-Tritton (planetary nebulae) Haufen — (for example: Haufen A in Cetus, at 1h 08.9m / -15° 25' (2000.0), which is, according to Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2, the same as Abell 151) Hav/Moffat — Havlen-Moffat (open star clusters) Hb — Hubble (planetary nebulae) HC — Howell-Crisp (planetary nebulae) HCG — Hickson Compact Group HCWils — H.C. Wilson (double stars) HD — Henry Draper Catalogue HDE — Henry Draper Extension HDEC — Henry Draper Extension Charts HdO — Harvard Observatory USA, and stations elsewhere (double stars) HDW — Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) Hdz — Harvard Zone Catalogues (double stars) HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey He — Henize (planetary nebulae) Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds Hf — Hoffleit (planetary nebulae) HFG — Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull HH — Herbig-Haro object HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey Hld — E.S. Holden (double stars) Hlm — E. Holmes (double stars) Hln — Frank Holden (double stars) HN — William Herschel's 1821 catalogue (double stars) Ho — Hogg (open star clusters) Ho — G.W.Hough (double stars) Holmberg — Erik Holmberg (dwarf irregular galaxies) Hooke — Robert Hooke (double stars) Howe — H.A. Howe (double stars) HP — Haute Provence (globular star clusters) (for example: HP 1 in Ophiuchus, at 17:31.1 / -29°59') HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue) Hrg — L. Hargrave (double stars) Hrr — Harrington (telescopic asterisms) HΣ — Hermann Struve (double stars) HS — Hamburg Survey (quasars and blue stars) HSC — Hubble Source Catalog (lists of sources from the Hubble Space Telescope) Hst — C.S. Hastings (double stars) Hu — Humason (planetary nebulae) Hu — W.J. Hussey (double stars) Hurt — Robert Hurt (for example: globular star cluster Hurt 2, aka 2MASS-GC02 in Sagittarius) Huygens — Christiaan Huygens (double stars) HV — Harvard Variable HVGC — Hyper Velocity Globular Cluster (for example: HVGC-1 in the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in Virgo) HVS — HyperVelocity Stars Hynek — J. Allen Hynek (double stars) Hz — Wulff D. Heintz (double stars) Hzg — E. Hertzsprung (double stars)
I I — Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (R.T.A. Innes, 1861–1933) (double stars) 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 IPHAS — The INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRS — International Reference Star IRSF — Infrared Survey Facility Isk — Iskudarian (open star clusters) (for example: Iskudarian 1 in the northern section of the rhombus β, γ, δ, and ζ Lyrae) Isserstedt (telescopic asterisms) IsWe — Ishida-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) Ivanov (open star clusters)
J J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see [1] for an article about it) Ja — Jacoby (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jacoby 1 at 15:23 / +52°14' in Boötes) JaFu — Jacoby-Fullton (planetary nebulae) JAn — John A. Anderson (double stars) Jc — William Stephen Jacob (double stars) Jef — H.M. Jeffers (double stars) Jn — Jones (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jones 1 at 23:36 / +30°28' in Pegasus) JnEr — Jones-Emberson (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jones-Emberson 1 in Lynx, also known as the Headphone nebula) Jo — Jones (double stars) Johansson — (open star clusters) (for example: Johansson 1 at 15:46:20 / -52:22:54 in Norma) Joy — Alfred Harrison Joy (double stars) JP11 – a 1978 catalog compiling photometric measurements in Harold Johnson's 11-color photometric system [2] Jsp — Morris Ketchum Jessup (double stars) Juchert — (open star clusters) Juchert-Saloranta (telescopic asterisms) JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.
K K — Lubos Kohoutek (planetary nebulae) K — Köhler's Deepsky Catalogue Ka — Valentina Karachentseva (dwarf galaxies) Karhula — (for example: open star cluster Karhula 1 near planetary nebula Messier 76 in Perseus) K2 — K2 (Kepler extended mission) catalog KELT — Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (search for extrasolar planets) Kemble — Father Lucian Kemble (asterisms which could be observed through binoculars, for example: Kemble 1, aka Kemble's Cascade in Camelopardalis) Kepler — Kepler catalog Kes — Kesteven (supernova remnants). For example: Kesteven 79 K / Kg — Ivan R. King (open star clusters) KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman Kharchenko (for example: open star cluster Kharchenko 1 at 6:08:48 / +24:19:54 near or at Messier 35 in Gemini) KIC — Kepler Input Catalog Kim — Dongwon Kim (for example: globular star cluster Kim 2 in Indus) KjPn — Kazaryan-Parsamyan (planetary nebulae) Klemola (for example: Klemola 44 galaxy cluster in Sculptor) (? — Arnold Richard Klemola, 1931–2019) KnFs — Kinman-Feast-Lasker (planetary nebulae) Knott / Kn — G. Knott (double stars) KOI — Kepler Object of Interest Kontizas (for example: Kontizas 953 in Dorado) (in the Large Magellanic Cloud) Koposov (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star clusters Koposov 1 and Koposov 2 in Virgo and Gemini) Kr — A.Kruger (double stars) (probably Karl Nikolaus Adalbert Krueger, 1832–1896) Kron — (globular star clusters) (for example: Kron 3 in Tucana) Kronberger — (for example: open star cluster Kronberger 1 at 5:28:20 / +34°46'52", aka Alicante 12, in Auriga) Kru — E.C. Kruger (double stars) Ku — F. Kustner (double stars) KUG — Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies Kui — Gerard P. Kuiper, 1905–73 (double stars) KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object
L L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten) La — Langley (double stars) Lac — N. de Lacaille, 1713–62 (double stars) Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (Lacaille) Lac I — Nebulae Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters Lac III — Nebulous Stars Laevens — Benjamin P. M. Laevens (globular clusters and dwarf galaxies), for example: Laevens 1 in Crater, Laevens 2 in Triangulum (Triangulum II), Laevens 3 in Delphinus. Lal — F. de Lalande (double stars) Lam — J. von Lamont (double stars) λ (Lambda) — (mentioned in T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars, pages 285–319: Index of Double Stars, Epoch 2000) Printed examples from the 'Lambda' catalogue: λ 32 (RA 3:47.9), λ 88 (RA 7:48.9), λ 91 (RA 7:55.7), λ 96 (RA 8:12.5), λ 108 (RA 9:0.3), λ 115 (RA 9:37.1), λ 140 (RA 11:56.7), λ 176 (RA 13:20.5), λ 228 (RA 15:23.2), λ 249 (RA 15:47.6), λ 316 (RA 17:0.4), λ ? (RA 17:6.4), λ 320 (RA 17:12.2), λ 342 (RA 17:53.3). All examples are located in the southern celestial hemisphere. The 'Lambda' catalogue is related to T.J.J.See's catalogue of double stars. LAMOST — Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (Guo Shoujing Telescope) Latham — (for example: Latham 1 at 13:10:50 / +30°28'36" in Coma Berenices) Latysev — (open star clusters) Lau — H.E. Lau (double stars) LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae Lbz — P. Labitzke (double stars) LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database Lederman — (telescopic asterisms) Le Gentil — (for example: Le Gentil 3 in Cygnus, at 21:08 / +51°40') (dark nebula) Leon — Frederick C. Leonard (double stars) Lewis — Thomas Lewis (double stars) LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue LG11 — Lépine & Gaidos 2011, bright M dwarfs LGG — Lyons Groups of Galaxies LGGS – Local Group Galaxy Survey LGS — (for example: dwarf galaxy LGS 3 in Pisces, also known as the Pisces Dwarf) LHA — Lamont-Hussey Alpha LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue Liller (globular star clusters) (for example: Liller 1 in Scorpius) Lo — Lars Olof Loden (open star clusters) Lo — Longmore Loiano — (for example: open star cluster Loiano 1 at 19:58:21 / +32°32'42" in Cygnus) Lorenzin — Tomm Lorenzin (telescopic asterisms) LoTr — Longmore-Tritton (planetary nebulae) LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue LPO — La Plata Observatory, Argentina LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below LS — Lensed Star (LS 1 = 'Icarus' in Leo) (see MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1) LSA — Lundstrom-Stenholm-Acker (planetary nebulae) 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 Luginbuhl-Skiff — (for example: open star cluster Luginbuhl-Skiff 1 at 6:14:48 / +12°52'24", slightly east of open star cluster NGC 2194 in Orion) Luhman — (for example: Luhman 16 in Vela) Luy — W.J. Luyten (double stars) Lv — Francis Preserved Leavenworth (double stars) Ly — Lynga (open star clusters)
M M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters (Messier object) M — Minkowski (planetary nebulae) Ma — J.H. Madler (double stars) Mac — Maclear (double stars) MACS — Massive Cluster Survey or Magellanic Catalogue of Stars 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 Maffei — Paolo Maffei (for example: galaxies Maffei 1 and Maffei 2 in Cassiopeia) Mailyan — (for example: Mailyan 44, aka Holmberg I / DDO 63 / UGC 5139, at 9h 40.5m / +71° 11' in Ursa Major) Malin — David Malin (for example: the largest galaxy known; Malin 1 in Coma Berenices) Mamajek (open star clusters) (for example: Mamajek 1 at 8:42:06 / -79°01'38" in Chamaeleon, also known as η Chamaeleontis cluster or η Chamaeleontis association) 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 MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford Me — Merrill (planetary nebulae) Mel — Melotte Catalogue of open star clusters (Philibert Jacques Melotte) Mercer (for example: globular star cluster Mercer 3 in Scutum) MGC (globular star clusters) (for example: MGC1 in Pisces) Mh — O.M. Mitchel (double stars) Mil — J.A. Miller (double stars) Miller (open star clusters) (for example: Miller 1 at 9:25:42 / -53°14'00", near the variable star GL Velorum, in Vela) Milb — W. Milburn (double stars) MlbO — Melbourne Observatory, Australia (double stars) Mlf — Frank Muller (double stars) Mlr — Paul Muller (double stars) Moffat (open star clusters) (for example: Moffat 1 at 16:01:30 / -54°07'00" in Norma) Moitinho (open star clusters) (for example: Moitinho 1 at 8:19:17 / -45°12'30", southwest of the Gum Nebula, in Vela) MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets Mrk — Benjamin "Benik" Egishevitch Markarian (open star clusters and galaxies; the Markarian galaxies) MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill — Catalog of Radio Sources Muzzio (open star clusters) (for example: Muzzio 1 at 8:57:12 / -47°46'00" in Vela) MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet MWC – (1933) Class O, B and A stars with bright hydrogen lines MWP — Motch-Werner-Pakull (planetary nebulae) MyCn — Mayall-Cannon (planetary nebulae) Mz — Menzel (planetary nebulae)
N N — (for example: N 164 nebula in Dorado) Na — Nassau (planetary nebulae) Naillon — (telescopic asterisms) (source: Bruno Alessi's list) N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30 Neckerman (telescopic asterisms) (for example: Neckerman 1, aka Kemble 2 "Little Cassiopeia"). NED — NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database Negueruela — (Ignacio Negueruela) NeVe — Neckel-Vehrenberg (planetary nebulae) New — ? (galaxies) New 1 in Cetus (source: The Deep-Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.0, Cragin-Lucyk-Rappaport, chart 262). New 5 in Sagittarius (thus mentioned on chart 22 of Wil Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0, mentioned as ESO 285-G7 on charts 411 and 412 in Uranometria 2000.0 Volume 2, 1987 edition). New 6 in Indus (chart 23 in Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0, chart 413 in the 1987 edition of Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 2) (as ESO 287-G13) NGC — New General Catalogue NGTS — Next-Generation Transit Survey (extrasolar planets) NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) [3] NRL - Naval Research Laboratory X-Ray NStars — Nearby Stars Database NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars NZO — New Zealand Observatory (double stars)
O O — O'Neal (open star clusters) OCL — Open Clusters OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogue [4] OGC — Ogle, et al. Galaxy Catalog (Example: OGC 94) OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment Ol — Charles Pollard Olivier (double stars) Opik — Ernst J. Opik (double stars) OSC — Open Supernova Catalog [5] OΣ — Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue, 1843 (double stars) OΣΣ — Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue Supplement, 1843 (double stars) OSS — Ohio Sky Survey OTC — Open TDE Catalog [6] OTS — Oasa-Tamura-Sugitani Ou — Nicolas Outters (for example: Ou 4, the 'Squid Nebula' in Cepheus) (see APOD — Astronomy Picture Of the Day — July 18, 2014).
P P — Perrine (double stars) PAL — Palomar Globular Clusters (15 globular clusters discovered on the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey plates) Par — Parkhurst (double stars) PB — Peimbert-Batiz (planetary nebulae) PC — Peimbert-Costero (planetary nebulae) PACWB — Catalogue of Particle-Accelerating Colliding-Wind Binaries [7] Pe — Perek (planetary nebulae) Perr — Perrotin (double stars) Perry — Perry (double stars) PG — Palomar-Green (catalogue of ultraviolet excess stellar objects) PGC — Principal Galaxies Catalogue PH — Planet Hunters PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue Pi — Pismis (Paris Pişmiş, 1911–1999) (catalogue of 22 open star clusters and 2 globular star clusters) PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek) PKS — Parkes Catalogue of Radio Sources Platais — Imants Platais' catalogue of open star clusters Plq — Paloque (double stars) PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins, Yale University) PM — Preite Martinez (planetary nebulae) PM – Proper Motion (Eggen) PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog PN — See PNG PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae Pol — Pollock (double stars) Pou — Pourteau (double stars) PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues Pri — Pritchett (double stars) PrO — Perth Observatory, Australia (double stars) Prz — Przbyllok (double stars) Ps — Francis G. Pease (planetary nebulae) (for example: Pease 1 in the globular cluster Messier 15, Pegasus) PSR — Pulsating Source of Radio (pulsars) PTFO — Palomar Transient Factory Ptt — Pettit (double stars) Pu — Purgathofer (planetary nebulae) PuWe — Purgathofer-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) Pz — Piazzi (double stars)
Q Q (?) — (for example: galaxy Q 6188 at 0:48.6 / -12:44 in Cetus) (mentioned on charts 261 / 262 in Uranometria 2000.0 Volume 2, 1987 edition) (according to Wolfgang Steinicke and Richard Jakiel of the book Galaxies and How to Observe Them, this galaxy (Q 6188) is also catalogued as Mrk 960 and PGC 2845) QES — QATAR Exoplanet Survey QSO — Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects QZM — (for example: QZM 2 at galactic coordinates 78.12 / +3.63) (J2000 — 20:14:26 / +41°13'28") (QZM 2 = Froebrich 116, = SUH 151)
R R — Radcliffe Observatory (RMC — Radcliffe Observatory Magellanic Clouds Catalogue) R — Rose (Rose Catalogue of Southern Clusters of Galaxies) R — H.C. Russell (double stars) Raab (open star clusters) RAFGL — Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory (four color infrared sky survey) Raymond — (telescopic asterisms) RBC — Revised Bologna Catalogue (for example: globular cluster RBC EXT8 in Messier 31; the Andromeda Galaxy) RBS — Rosat Bright Survey (bright X-ray sources) RC — Reference Catalogue RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition RCW — Rodgers-Campbell-Whiteoak, a catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby Stars Reiland — (for example: open star cluster Reiland 1 at 23:04:45 / +60°04'40") Reinmuth — (galaxies) (for example: Reinmuth 80 in Virgo) (NGC 4517A) Renou (telescopic asterisms) Reyle-Robin — (open star clusters, I.R.) Richaud — Jean Richaud, 1633–93 (double stars) Riddle — (open star clusters / telescopic asterisms) Rmk — C.L.C. Rumker (double stars) RMM — (for example: open star cluster RMM 1 at 12:12:20 / -63°15'31") RNGC — Revised New General Catalogue Ro — Curt Roslund (open star clusters) Roberts — (protoplanetary nebulae) Roe — Edward Drake Roe, 1859–1929 (double stars) Roman-Lopes — (open star clusters, I.R.) Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars (Frank Elmore Ross) ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue RSGC — Red Super Giant Cluster (for example: RSGC 3 at 18:45:20 / -3°24'43") RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Richard Alfred Rossiter, 1886–1977) Ru — Jaroslav Ruprecht (open star clusters) RX — ROSAT observations
S S — James South (double stars) Sa — Sanduleak (planetary nebulae) SA — Sandqvist (dark nebulae) (for example: Sandqvist 169 near Alpha Centauri) SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago Saloranta — Jaakko Saloranta (telescopic asterisms) SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog Saurer — (for example: the open star cluster Saurer 1 at 7:18:18 / +1°53'12" in Canis Minor) SaWe — Sanduleak-Weinberger (planetary nebulae) SAX — Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X (BeppoSAX satellite) SC — Slough catalogue ("Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, made at Slough, with a Twenty-Feet Reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833" by John Herschel; 2306 entries) Schb — John Martin Schaeberle (double stars) Schj — Hans Schjellerup (double stars) Schoenberg — (for example: Schoenberg 205-6 at 6:37.1 / +10°21') Schuster — (for example: open star cluster Schuster 1 at 10:04:39 / -55°51'29" in Vela) SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue. Scott — J.L. Scott (double stars) SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory SHOC --- Strong Emission Line H II Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Catalog of DR1 Objects with Oxygen Abundances from Te Measurements. 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. Se — Father Angelo Secchi (double stars) Se — Sersic (selected list of peculiar galaxies and groups of galaxies) See — T.J.J. See (Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, 1866–1962) (double stars) (related to the 'Lambda' catalogue which is mentioned in T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars, pages 285–319: Index of Double Stars, Epoch 2000). SEGUE — Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (for example: galaxies Segue 1 in Leo, Segue 2 in Aries, and Segue 3 in Pegasus) Sei — J. Scheiner (double stars) SGR — Soft Gamma Repeater Sh — Sharpless catalog (Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2 (1959)) Sh — Sher (open star clusters) (for example: Sher 1 at 11:01:04 / -60°14'00" in Carina) S, h — James South / John Herschel (joint 1824 catalogue of double stars) Shk — Romela Karapet Shakhbazian (compact groups of galaxies) (for example: Shakhbazian 1 (the 'Russian Cluster') at 10:54.8 / +40°28' in Ursa Major) Shorlin — (for example: open star cluster Shorlin 1 at 11:05:46 / -61°13'48" in Carina) Simeis — (for example: supernova remnant Simeis 147 / Sh2-240 in Taurus, also known as the 'Spaghetti Nebula') SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre (French: Infrared Proper Motion Survey), an all-sky survey in the near-infrared initiated in 2005 with the CPARIR camera. Sinnott — (multiple star systems) SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey Sk — Skinner (double stars) SL — Sandqvist-Lindroos (dark nebulae) Slr — R.P. Sellors (double stars) Smart — W.M. Smart (double stars) Smyth — W.H. Smyth (1788–1865) (double stars) Sn — Shane (planetary nebulae) Sp — Giovanni Schiaparelli (double stars) Sp — Shapley (planetary nebulae) Spano — (telescopic asterisms) SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog SS — Sadler and Sharp (survey of E-type and S0-type galaxies) SS — Sanduleak-Stephenson (for example: SS 433 in Aquila) SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source SSTDUSTG — DUSTiNGS (Dust in Nearby Galaxies with Spitzer) St — Carl L. Stearns (double stars) Ste — Stephenson (open star clusters) Stein — Johan Stein (double stars) Steine — (open star clusters) STF (Σ) — Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, aka 'Struve the Father' (double stars) ΣI — W. Struve, First Supplement (double stars) ΣII — W. Struve, Second Supplement (double stars) StM – Charles Bruce Stephenson (late M stars) St / Stock — Jürgen Stock (open star clusters) (Stock 1 and 2 in, Stock 3 to 23 in, Stock 24 in ) Stone — Ormond Stone (double stars) Streicher — (telescopic asterisms) Stromlo — (for example: Stromlo 2 in Monoceros and Canis Major, at IC 2177; the 'Eagle Nebula') StWr — Stock-Wroblewski (planetary nebulae) Sw — Swift (double stars) SWEEPS — Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search Swift (for example: Swift J1745-26 in Sagittarius) (stellar-mass black hole) SwSt —