0-9
* 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0[1]
* 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite[2]
* 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey[1][3]
* 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations
* 1RXS — ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog
* 1SWASP — SuperWASP
* 2A — see 1A
* 2E — The Einstein Observatory Soft X-ray Source List
* 2MASS — Two Micron All Sky Survey
o 2MASP — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Prototype
o 2MASSI — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Incremental release
o 2MASSW — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Working database
o 2MUCD — Ultracool Dwarfs from the 2MASS Catalog
* 3A — see 1A
* 4C — Fourth Cambridge Survey of celestial radio sources
* 8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec
A
* Abell — Abell catalogue
* AC — Astrographic Catalogue
* ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue
* AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
* ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars[4]
* AN — Astronomische Nachrichten
* APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
* ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001)
B
* B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
* BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
* BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation)
* BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
* BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
* BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue
* 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
o CCS2 — General Catalog of S Stars, second edition
* CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
* CDIMP — Catalogue of Discoveries and Identifications of Minor Planets
* CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes[5]
* CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
* CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
* CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
* Col — Collinder catalog
* CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue
o CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
* CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue[6]
* CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
* CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications[7]
* CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
* CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars
D
* DA — Dominion Observatory List A[8]
* DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds [9]
* DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey
o DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
* DM — Durchmusterung
o BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
o CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
o CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
* DO — Dearborn Observatory
E
* EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
* EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets
F
* FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
* FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
* FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
* FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designation)
* FSC — Faint Source Catalogue
G
* G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)
o GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas dwarf)
o GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas red star)
o HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas Hyades)
* GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
* GC (Boss) — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars
* GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities[10]
* GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
* GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
* Gl / GJ — Gliese-Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese-Jahreiss catalogue
* GSC — Guide Star Catalog
o GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
* GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
o GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
H
* HD — Henry Draper Catalogue
* HDE — Henry Draper Extension
* HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey
* Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
* HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
* HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
* HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
* HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue)
I
* IC — Index Catalog
o IC I — Index Catalog I
o IC II — Index Catalog II
* IDS — Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
* IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source
* IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
* IRS — International Reference Star
J
* J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see [1] for an article about it)
* JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.
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)
o Lac I — Nebulae
o Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters
o Lac III — Nebulous Stars
* LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae
* LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
* LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue
* LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
* LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue
* LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue
* LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey
* LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
* LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below
* LSN — Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way
* LSPM - LSPM catalog - Lépine-Shara Proper Motion catalog
* 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)
o MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
o MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
* McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog
* MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
* MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford[11]
* MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
* MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources
* MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet
N
* N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30[12]
* NGC — New General Catalogue
* NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog
* NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
* NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) [2]
* NStars — Nearby Stars Database
* NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars
O
* OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
* OSS — Ohio Sky Survey
P
* PGC — Principal Galaxies Catalogue
* PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue[13]
* PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek)
* PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement (Jenkins, Yale University)
* PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog[14]
* PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae[15]
* PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues
Q
* QSO — Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects
R
* RC — Reference Catalogue
o RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
o RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
* RCW — A catalogue of Hα-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
* ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars[16]
* RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
* RST — Catalogue of southern double stars (Rossiter)
* RX — ROSAT observations
S
* SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago[17]
* SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
* SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
* SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
o SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
o 1SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1st release
o 2SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
o 3SDSS — reserved by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for future release. The name is reserved to the IAU, but does not exist yet.
* Sh — Sharpless catalog (Sh 1 (1953) & Sh 2(1959))
* 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
* SPOCS -- Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
* SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
* SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
* SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
* STF — Struve the Father double star
* Stock — Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in [18], Stock 3 to 23 in [19], Stock 24 in [20])
T
* TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog
* TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes (TD1 satellite)
* TIC — Tycho Input Catalog
* TrES — Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
o TrES-And0 — TrES of planetary candidate in the Andromeda constellation
* TVLM — Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue
* TYC — Tycho Catalogue
o TYC2 — Tycho-2 Catalogue
* Trumpler — Robert Julius Trumpler's open cluster list, published in Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clusters
U
* UBV — Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968)
* UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987)
* UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1 , UCAC2 and UCAC3)
* UGC — Uppsala General Catalogue
* USNO — US Naval Observatory
o USNO-A1.0 — US Naval Observatory, A1.0 catalogue
o USNO-A2.0 — US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue
o USNO-B1.0 — US Naval Observatory, B1.0 catalogue
* uvby98 — uvbyβ photoelectric photometric catalogue, by B. Hauck, M. Mermilliod, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 129, 431-433 (1998)
V
* vB — Van Biesbroeck catalog, variant, "VB"
* VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog
* VdB- van den Bergh
W
* W20 — Washington 20 Catalog
* WASP — Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
* WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
* WDS — Washington Double Star Catalog
* Wo — Woolley Nearby 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
o XEST-OM — XEST, Optical/UV Monitor
* XTE — X-ray Timing Explorer
Y
* YZ — Yale Observatory Zone Catalog
Z
* Z — Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies
Main article: Zij
* Book of Fixed Stars
* Tables of Toledo
* Zij-i Ilkhani
* Zij-i-Sultani
See also
* List of astronomy acronyms
* List of common astronomy symbols
Notes and references
1. ^ a b See p. 20, X-ray sources in SIMBAD, J. M. Hameury, C. Motch, and M. Pakull, Bull. Inf. Centre Données Stellaires 47, pp. 19–20, Bibcode: 1995BICDS..47...19H.
2. ^ p. 19, X-ray sources in SIMBAD.
3. ^ The Einstein Slew Survey, Martin Elvis, David Plummer, Jonathan Schachter, and G. Fabbiano, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 80, #1 (May 1992), pp. 257–303, Bibcode: 1992ApJS...80..257E, doi:10.1086/191665.
4. ^ Reed, B.C., Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 115, 271-276 (1998)
5. ^ 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.
6. ^ Cape Photographic Catalog 1950.0 (CPC) (Jackson+ 1954-1968), database, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg.
7. ^ See Microfiche Edition of CSI, F. Ochsenbein, M. Bischoff, and D. Egret, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 43 (February 1981), pp. 259–264, Bibcode: 1981A&AS...43..259O, and 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 Stellaires 24 (March 1983), pp. 109–123, Bibcode: 1983BICDS..24..109E.
8. ^ 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)
9. ^ 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
10. ^ General catalogue of stellar radial velocities, Ralph Elmer Wilson, Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1953, Bibcode: 1953QB901.W495......
11. ^ 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)
12. ^ H. R. Morgan, Astron. Papers Amer. Ephemeris 13, Part III (1952). CDS ID I/80.
13. ^ Faint Blue Stars in the Region near the South Galactic Pole, G. Haro and W. J. Luyten, Boletín de los Observatorios de Tonantzintla y Tacubaya 3 (1962), pp. 37–117, Bibcode: 1962BOTT....3...37H; CDS ID III/74.
14. ^ CDS IDs I/186, I/167, I/187, I/188, I/198, and I/248.
15. ^ CDS IDs V/84
16. ^ 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.
17. ^ F. Noel, Second astrolabe catalogue of Santiago, Astron. Astrophys., Suppl. Ser., 106, 441-450 (1994)
18. ^ Stock, J. 1956. "Magnitudes and Colors for Stars in Two New Galactic Clusters", Ap.J. 123: 258-265
19. ^ Alter, G., J. Ruprecht, V. Vanysek. 1958. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Prague: Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
20. ^ Alter, G., B. Balazs, and J. Ruprecht. 1970. Catalogue of Star Clusters and Associations. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiado
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