Astronomical Catalogues

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List of astronomical catalogues

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1RXH – ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations
1RXS – ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog
1SWASP – Super Wasp Angle Search for Planets
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
8pc – 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec

A
AC – Astrographic Catalogue
ADS – Aitken Double Star Catalogue
AGK – Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
APM – Automatic Plate Measuring machine

B
BAC – Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
BAY – Uranometria (Bayer designation)
BCVS – Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
BD – Bonner Durchmusterung
BEN – Jack Bennett Catalog
BPM / L – Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)
BRI – Bj, 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
CGSS – Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
CIO – Catalog of Infrared Observations
CMC – Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
Col – Collinder catalogue
CPC – Cape Photographic Catalogue
CPD – Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
CSI – Catalog of Stellar Identification
CSV – Catalog of Suspected Variables
CSS – General Catalogue of S Stars

D
DCld – Catalog of dark nebulae and globules
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

E
EGGR – Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
EMP – Ephemerides of Minor Planets

F
FCC – Fornax Cluster 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
GCVS – General Catalog of Variable Stars
Gl / GJ – Gliese-Jahreiss Catalogue
GSC – Guide Star Catalog
GSC2 / GSC II – Guide Star Catalog II
GSPC – Guide Star Photometric Catalog
GSPC2 – Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd

H
HD – Henry Draper Catalogue
HDE – Henry Draper Extension
HE – Hamburg/ESO Survey
HIC – Hipparcos Input Catalogue
HIP – Hipparcos Catalogue
HIPASS – HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
HR – Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue)

I
IC – Index Catalog
IC I – Index Catalog I
IC II – Index Catalog II
IDS – Index catalog of Double Stars
IGR – Integral Gamma-Ray source
IRAS – Infrared Astronomical Satellite
IRS – International Reference Star

K
KIC – Kepler Input Catalog
KGZ – Catalogue de Zimmerman
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
LFT – Luyten Five-Tenths Catalogue
LHS – Luyten Half-Second Catalogue
LP – Luyten-Palomar Survey
LPM – Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
LSN – Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way
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
MPC – Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
MW – Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet

N
NGC – New General Catalogue
NHICAT – Northern HIPASS Catalog
NLTT – New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
NSV – New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars

O
OGLE – Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment

P
PK – Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek)
PN – Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae
PPM – Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues

Q
QSO – Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects

R
RC – Reference Catalogue
RC2 – Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
RC3 – Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
RCW – A catalogue of HÎ±-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
RSA – Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
RST – Catalogue of southern double stars (Rossiter)

S
SAO – Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalogue
SCR – SupweCOSMOS RECONS
SDSS – Sloan Digital Sky Survey
SDSSp – Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
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
SRS – Southern Reference Star Catalog
SSSPM – SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
SSTc2d – Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
STF – Struve the Father double star

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

U
UCAC – USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog
UGC – Uppsala General Catalogue

V
VB – Van Biesbroeck catalog
VCC – Virgo Cluster Catalog

W
W20 – Washington 20 Catalog
WASP – Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
WASP0-TR – Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
WDS – Washington Double 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
VizieR
CDS Service for Astronomical Catalogues
Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects

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