Astronomical catalogues
16 entries in the Astronomical Catalogues compendium.
Astronomical catalogueLists of astronomical objects grouped by type, origin, or discovery method.Celestial cartographyMapping the celestial sphere from antiquity to modern databases.Gaia cataloguesMapping a billion stars with microarcsecond precision.Star catalogueMapping the heavens: from clay tablets to billions of stars.2MASSInfrared survey cataloging 300 million celestial objects.Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae1966 catalog of 86 suspected planetary nebulae from Palomar Sky Survey.Astronomical AlmanacJoint UK/US almanac providing fundamental astronomical data worldwide.Bayer designationSystematic stellar naming using Greek and Latin letters.Caldwell catalogueA catalogue of 109 deep-sky objects for amateur astronomers.Carte du CielAmbitious but unfinished international star-charting project.Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of StarsPrecursor catalogue to the modern New General Catalogue.Cœlum Australe StelliferumFrench astronomer who catalogued southern stars and named 14 constellations.De systemate orbis cometici, deque admirandis coeli characteribusA forgotten 1654 tract on comets and nebulae rediscovered in the 20th century.Digitized Sky SurveyDigitized photographic surveys of the night sky for astronomy.DurchmusterungSystematic star survey cataloguing 342,198 stars down to magnitude 9.5.European Space Information SystemPioneer project for homogeneous access to astronomical databases.
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