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.
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)
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)
ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars[5]
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)
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.
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
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) [8]
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) [9]
BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus) [10]
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
TPK — Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger (asterisms) (for example: Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger 1 at 23:39.3 / +47°30', north of the former constellation
Honores Friderici in
Andromeda)
Tr / Trumpler —
Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters
Tu — Tucker (double stars)
Turner —
David G. Turner (?) (open star clusters) (for example: Turner 9 at and near the variable star
SU Cygni, aka 'SU Cygni cluster')
^
abSee p. 20, X-ray sources in SIMBAD, J. M. Hameury, C. Motch, and M. Pakull, Bull. Inf. Centre Données Stellaires47, pp. 19–20,
Bibcode:
1995BICDS..47...19H.
^The Einstein Slew Survey, Martin Elvis, David Plummer, Jonathan Schachter, and G. Fabbiano, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series80, #1 (May 1992), pp. 257–303,
Bibcode:
1992ApJS...80..257E,
doi:
10.1086/191665.
^See the
Fermi Science Support Center at NASA, or directly the paper: Pat Nolan et al. (the Fermi LAT Collaboration) "Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog", Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 199, 31 (2012)
doi:
10.1088/0067-0049/199/2/31
^Celescope Catalog of Ultraviolet Stellar Observations. Magnetic Tape Version, R. J. Davis, W. A. Deutschman, K. L. Haramundanis, SAO Special Report #350 (1973),
Bibcode:
1973SAOSR.350....1D.
^Cruz-González, C.;
Recillas-Cruz, E.; Costero, R.; Peimbert, M.; Torres-Peimbert, S. (1974). "A catalogue of galactic O stars and the ionization of the low density interstellar medium by runaway stars". Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica. 1: 211.
Bibcode:
1974RMxAA...1..211C.
^Microfiche Edition of CSI, F. Ochsenbein, M. Bischoff, and D. Egret, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series43 (February 1981), pp. 259–264,
Bibcode:
1981A&AS...43..259O
^S.I.M.B.A.D. Story: A Description of the Data Base of the Strasbourg Stellar Data Center, D. Egret, Bull. d'Inf. Cent. Données Stellaires24 (March 1983), pp. 109–123,
Bibcode:
1983BICDS..24..109E.
^J.A. Galt, J.E.D. Kennedy, Survey of radio sources observed in the continuum near 1420 MHz, declinations -5 to +70, Astron. J., 73, 135–151 (1968)
^A catalogue of southern dark clouds, Hartley M., Manchester R.N., Smith R.M., Tritton S.B., Goss W.M., Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 63, 27 (1986), 1986A&AS...63...27H
^General catalogue of stellar radial velocities, Ralph Elmer Wilson, Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1953,
Bibcode:
1953GCRV..C......0W.
^Miyauchi-Isobe, N.; Nakajima, K.; Maehara, H. (2004). "The Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies (KUG)". Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems. 314. San Francisco: 161–164.
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^W.W. Morgan, A.D. Code, A.E. Whitford, Studies in galactic structure. II. Luminosity classification for 1270 blue giants stars. Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 2, 41-74 (1955)
^H. R. Morgan, Astron. Papers Amer. Ephemeris13, Part III (1952).
CDS ID
I/80.
^Faint Blue Stars in the Region near the South Galactic Pole, G. Haro and W. J. Luyten, Boletín de los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya3 (1962), pp. 37–117,
Bibcode:
1962BOTT....3...37H;
CDS ID
III/74.
^Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars, Akira Uesugi and Ichiro Fukuda, Contributions from the Institute of Astrophysics and Kwasan Observatory, University of Kyoto, Kyoto: University, Kwasan Observatory, Institute of Astrophysics, 1970,
Bibcode:
1970crvs.book.....U.
^APOD — Astronomy Picture Of the Day, April 13, 2019
^F. Noel, Second astrolabe catalogue of Santiago, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 106, 441–450 (1994)
^Schwarz, H. E.; Corradi, R. L. M.; Melnick, J. (1992). "A catalogue of narrow band images of planetary nebulae". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series. 96: 23.
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1992A&AS...96...23S.
^Alter, G., J. Ruprecht, V. Vanysek. 1958. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Prague: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
^Alter, G., B. Balazs, and J. Ruprecht. 1970. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiado
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.
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)
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)
ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars[5]
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)
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.
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
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) [8]
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) [9]
BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus) [10]
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
TPK — Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger (asterisms) (for example: Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger 1 at 23:39.3 / +47°30', north of the former constellation
Honores Friderici in
Andromeda)
Tr / Trumpler —
Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters
Tu — Tucker (double stars)
Turner —
David G. Turner (?) (open star clusters) (for example: Turner 9 at and near the variable star
SU Cygni, aka 'SU Cygni cluster')
^
abSee p. 20, X-ray sources in SIMBAD, J. M. Hameury, C. Motch, and M. Pakull, Bull. Inf. Centre Données Stellaires47, pp. 19–20,
Bibcode:
1995BICDS..47...19H.
^The Einstein Slew Survey, Martin Elvis, David Plummer, Jonathan Schachter, and G. Fabbiano, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series80, #1 (May 1992), pp. 257–303,
Bibcode:
1992ApJS...80..257E,
doi:
10.1086/191665.
^See the
Fermi Science Support Center at NASA, or directly the paper: Pat Nolan et al. (the Fermi LAT Collaboration) "Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog", Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 199, 31 (2012)
doi:
10.1088/0067-0049/199/2/31
^Celescope Catalog of Ultraviolet Stellar Observations. Magnetic Tape Version, R. J. Davis, W. A. Deutschman, K. L. Haramundanis, SAO Special Report #350 (1973),
Bibcode:
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