Astronomical Catalogues Codexery

A source-cited reference to astronomical catalogues

Astronomical catalogues (16)

• Astronomical catalogue — Lists of astronomical objects grouped by type, origin, or discovery method.
• Celestial cartography — Mapping the celestial sphere from antiquity to modern databases.
• Gaia catalogues — Star catalogues from the Gaia space telescope
• Star catalogue — Mapping the heavens: from clay tablets to billions of stars.
• 2MASS — Infrared survey cataloging 300 million celestial objects.
• Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae — 1966 catalog of 86 suspected planetary nebulae from Palomar Sky Survey.
• Astronomical Almanac — Joint UK/US almanac providing fundamental astronomical data worldwide.
• Bayer designation — Systematic stellar naming using Greek and Latin letters.
• Caldwell catalogue — A catalogue of 109 deep-sky objects for amateur astronomers.
• Carte du Ciel — Ambitious but unfinished international star-charting project.
• Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars — Precursor catalogue to the modern New General Catalogue.
• Cœlum Australe Stelliferum — French astronomer who catalogued southern stars and named 14 constellations.
• De systemate orbis cometici, deque admirandis coeli characteribus — A forgotten 1654 tract on comets and nebulae rediscovered in the 20th century.
• Digitized Sky Survey — Digitized photographic surveys of the night sky for astronomy.
• Durchmusterung — Systematic star survey cataloguing 342,198 stars down to magnitude 9.5.
• European Space Information System — Pioneer project for homogeneous access to astronomical databases.

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