�Deep Sky Object (DSO) Catalogs Commonly Referenced by Astronomers
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Common
Abbrev. |
Other
Common Term(s) |
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Authors/Origin |
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Publication
Title or Content |
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Date |
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� Abell |
� Abell
galaxy clusters are usually referred to as AGC (Abell Galaxy Cluster) if from
the original Abell catalog, or as RCG (Rich Cluster of Galaxies) if from its
southern extension. �� |
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� G.O.
Abell |
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� The
Distribution of Rich Clusters of Galaxies |
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� 1958 |
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AM |
Arp-Madore |
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Halton C.
Arp, Barry F. Madore � |
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A
Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations |
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1987 |
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ARC |
"Abell
Rich Cluster" |
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See
"Abell" above. � |
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Arp |
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Halton C.
Arp � |
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Globular
Clusters in the Galaxy |
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1965 |
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B |
Barnard |
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Edward
Emerson Barnard |
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Catalogue
of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky |
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1927 |
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Bark |
Bar |
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K.A.
Barkhatova |
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Clusters
in the region of the North America Nebula � |
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1958 |
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Basel |
Bas |
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Basel
Astronomical Institute |
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A
Catalogue of Galactic Star Clusters Observed in Three Colours �� |
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1971 |
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Berk |
Berkeley |
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Univ. of
Calif. at Berkeley (observations were first published by G�sta Lyng�) �� |
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Catalogue
of Star Clusters and Associations |
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1958 |
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Biur |
Biurakan |
|
Victor
Ambartsumian (Director
of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory which he founded in 1946) �� |
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Soobscenija
Bjurakanskoj observatorii 2, 7 |
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1949 |
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Bochum |
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Astronomical Institute, Ruhr Univ., Bochum, Germany ����� |
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Catalog
of Star Clusters |
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1975 |
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Ced |
Cederblad |
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S.
Cederblad |
|
Catalog
of Bright Diffuse Galactic Nebulae �� |
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1946 |
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Cr |
Collinder |
|
Per
Collinder |
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[Catalogue
of 471 open clusters] |
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1931 |
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Czernik |
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M.
Czernik |
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New
Open Star Clusters |
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1966 |
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Do |
Dolidze |
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Madona
Dolidze |
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[Open
clusters] |
|
1966 |
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DoDz |
Dolidze-
Dzimselejsvili |
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Madona
Dolidze & G. N. Dzimselejsvili |
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[Open
clusters] |
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1966 |
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E |
ESO |
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Agn�s
Ackers et al. |
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The
Strasbourg-European Southern Observatory (ESO) Catalogue of Galactic
Planetary Nebulae |
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1992 |
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Haffner |
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H.
Haffner |
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New
Galactic Star Clusters in the Southern Milky Way |
|
1957 |
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Harvard |
H |
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Harlow
Shapley |
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Star
Clusters (Appendix B) |
|
1930 |
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Hb |
Hubble |
|
Edwin
Powell Hubble |
|
Twelve
new planetary nebulae |
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1921 |
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He-2 |
He2 |
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Karl G.
Henize |
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Observations
of Southern Planetary Nebulae |
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1967 |
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Hogg |
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Helen
Sawyer Hogg |
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Catalogues
of Variable Stars in Globular Clusters |
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1939,
'55, '73 |
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HP |
Haute-Provence |
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From the
Haute-Provence observatory in southeastern France |
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A
globular cluster discovered by Dufay, Berthier and Morignat in 1954 |
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1954 |
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J |
Jonckheere |
|
Robert
Jonckheere |
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[Catalogue
of Planetary Nebulae] |
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1916 |
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King |
K |
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Ivan R.
King |
|
Some
New Galactic Clusters |
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1949 |
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LBN |
Lynds
Bright Nebula |
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B.T.
Lynds |
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Catalogue
of Bright Nebulae |
|
1965 |
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LDN |
Lynds
Dark Nebula |
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B.T.
Lynds |
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Catalogue
of Dark Nebulae |
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1962 |
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Lynga |
Ly |
|
G�sta
Lyng� (at Lund Observatory) |
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Catalogue
of Star Clusters and Associations |
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1958 |
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M1 |
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Rudolph
Leo Minkowski |
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New
Emission Nebulae (Minkowski's
first list) |
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1946 |
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M2 |
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Rudolph
Leo Minkowski |
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(Minkowski's
second list) |
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M3 |
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Rudolph
Leo Minkowski |
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(Minkowski's
third list) |
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M4 |
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Rudolph
Leo Minkowski |
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(Minkowski's
fourth list) |
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Me |
Merrill |
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P.W.
Merrill |
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Distant
Planetary Nebulae |
|
1941 |
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Mel |
Melotte |
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Philibert
Jacques Melotte |
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A
catalogue of star clusters shown on the Franklin-Adams chart plates |
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1915 |
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Mrk |
Markarian |
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The
Armenian astronomer Benjamin Eghishe Markarian, with V.A Lipovetskii, J.A.
Stepanian, L.K. Erastova, and A.I. Shapovalova |
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Catalog
of Galaxies with UV Continuum |
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1989 |
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Palomar |
Pal |
|
Very
faint globular clusters discovered within the POSS (Palomar Observatory Sky
Survey) |
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From the National
Geographic Society-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey |
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1955 |
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Pismis |
Pi |
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Paris
Pismis |
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Nuevos
Cumulos Estelares en Regiones del Sur |
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1959 |
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PK |
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Lubos
Perek & Lubos Kohoutek |
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Catalogue
of Galactic Planetary Nebulae |
|
1967 |
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Ru |
Ruprecht |
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J.
Ruprecht, G. Alter, & V. Vanysek |
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Catalogue
of Star Clusters & Associations |
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1970 |
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Sh2 |
Sharpless |
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Stewart
Sharpless |
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A
Catalogue of H II Regions |
|
1959 |
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Steph |
Stephenson |
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C. B.
Stephenson |
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[Open
clusters] |
|
1959 |
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Stock |
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J�rgen
Stock |
|
[Open
clusters] |
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1956
& 1957 |
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Ter |
Terzan |
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Agop
Terzan |
|
[Catalog
of 11 globular clusters discovered by Agop Terzan (France) in the infrared] |
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1966 -
1967 |
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Tombaugh |
Tom |
|
Clyde
Tombaugh |
|
Tombaugh
(the discoverer of Pluto at Lowell Observatory) published three successive
"Small Lists of Open Clusters" |
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1938,
1941 |
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Tr |
Tr�mpler |
|
Robert J.
Tr�mpler |
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Preliminary
Results on the Distances, Dimensions and Space Distribution of Open Star
Clusters |
|
1930 |
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UKS |
UK
Schmidt |
|
M Malkan,
D.E.Kleinmann, and J. Apt |
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Infrared
studies of Globular Clusters near the Galactic Center |
|
1980 |
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vdB |
van den
Bergh |
|
Sidney
van den Bergh |
|
A
Study of Reflection Nebulae |
|
1966 |
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vdB-Ha |
van den
Bergh-Hagen |
|
S. Van
den Bergh and G. L. Hagen |
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A
Uniform Survey of Clusters in the Southern Milky Way |
|
1975 |
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Vy |
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A. N.
Vyssotsky |
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[Planetary
Nebulae] |
|
1942
& 1945 |
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Waterloo |
Wa |
|
M. P.
Fitzgerald, R. Boudreault, M. Fich, M. Luiken,and A. N. Witt |
|
[Open
clusters] |
|
1979 |
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Westr |
Westerlund |
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A. F. J.
Moffat, N. Vogt |
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Southern
Open Star Clusters |
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1975 |
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