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3C
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(and 3CR) — Third Cambridge
3C273
Catalogue of Radio Sources (and
revised)
4C
Fourth Cambridge Survey of celestial
radio sources
5C
Fifth Cambridge Survey of Radio
Sources
6C
Sixth Cambridge Survey of radio
sources
7C
Seventh Cambridge Survey
8C
Eighth Cambridge Survey
A
A
A433 or A2014AA
Asteroid Provisional designation or
[276]
official number [within brackets
additional]
AB
Abell catalogue
AC
Astrographic Catalogue
ADS
Aitken Double Star Catalogue
AG, AGK,
Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
AGKR
ARP
ARP 299
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
B
B
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
Be
Berkeley open cluster list (104 items)
BEN
Jack Bennett Catalog
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C
C-20XXxx
C-2014A1 or C-
Comet designation or name
Sliding Spring
C
C28
Caldwell catalogue
CCDM
Catalog of Components of Double and
Multiple Stars
CCS
General Catalogue of Cool Carbon
Stars
General Catalog of S Stars, second
edition
CCS2
CMC
Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
Col
Collinder catalog
CONJ
CONJ-MARS&
Planetary Conjunction [eg Mars &
JUPITER2014
Jupiter] followed by year
CoRoT
CoRoT Catalogue
CPC
Cape Photographic Catalogue
CPD
Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
CSI
Catalog of Stellar Identifications
CSV
Catalog of Suspected Variables
DCld
A catalogue of southern dark clouds
DM
Durchmusterung
Bonner Durchmusterung
D
BD
E
ECLS
ECLS2014
Eclipse Solar [followed by year]
ECLL
ECLL2014
Eclipse Lunar [followed by year]
ESO
European Southern Observatory
Catalog
EXOPL-
EXOPL-WASP-74b
ExoPlanet [Star/Survey name followed
by designation ]
F
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FCC
Fornax Cluster Catalogue
FK4
Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
FK5
Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
FLM
Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed
designation)
FSC
Faint Source Catalogue
G
Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)
GC
General Catalogue of Nebulae and
G
Clusters
GC
(Boss) — Boss general catalogue of
33342 stars
GCVS
General Catalog of Variable Stars
GSC
GSC2 /
GSC II
Guide Star Catalog
Guide Star Catalog II
GSPC
GSPC2
Guide Star Photometric Catalog
Guide Star Photometric Catalog,
2nd
Gum
Gum catalog of emission nebulae
HD
Henry Draper Catalogue
HCG
Hickson Compact Group
HDE
Henry Draper Extension
HE
Hamburg/ESO Survey
Hen
Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission
H
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)
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I
IC
IC501
IC I
IC II
IDS
Index Catalogue
Index Catalogue I
Index Catalogue II
Index Catalogue of Visual Double
Stars
IRS
International Reference Star
J
Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of
J
double star observations
JUPITER
JW
JUPITER
Jupiter [Planet]
Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the
Orion Nebula.
K
KBO
Kuiper Belt Object
Kepler
Kepler catalog
KIC
Kepler Input Catalog
KGZ
Catalogue de Zimmerman
KOI
Kepler Object of Interest
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
LSN
Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky
L
Way
LSR
Lepine-Shara-Rich catalogue
LSS
Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky
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Way
LTT
Luyten Two-Tenths catalogue
M
M
M31
Messier object
MARS
MARS
Mars [Planet]
McC
McCormick Observatory Catalog
MCG
Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
Mel
Melotte Catalogue of Deep Sky Objects
MERCURY
MERCURY
Mercury [Planet]
MET-
MET-ORI2014
Meteors [for showers CONS = ORI =
Orionids] + Other eg. Quadrantis
followed by year
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
NEPTUNE
NEPTUNE
Neptune [Planet]
NGC
NGC7331
New General Catalogue
NHICAT
Northern HIPASS Catalog
NLTT
New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
NOMAD
The Naval Observatory Merged
Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD)
NOVA-
NOVA-AQL2014
NStars
Nova [CONS followed by year]
Nearby Stars Database
NSV
New Catalogue of Suspected Variable
Stars
O
OCCL
OCCL-
Occultation of star/planet or satellite
[JUPITER&SATURN]
[eg occultation star to asteroid =
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OSS
Ohio Sky Survey
OTH
OTHER (description does not fit with any
Code)
P
PGC
Principal Galaxies Catalogue
PHL
Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue
PK
Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae
(Perek-Kohoutek)
PLUTO
PLUTO
PNG
Pluto [ex-Planet]
Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic
Planetary Nebulae
Q
QSO
Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasistellar Objects
R
RCW
A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the
southern Milky Way
RNGC
Revised New General Catalogue
RSA
Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
RST
Catalogue of southern double
stars (Rossiter)
S
SAO
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Star Catalog
SAT
Saturn [Planet]
SDSS x
SDSSx
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, x =Version
Sh
Sharpless catalog (Sh 1 (1953) & Sh
2(1959))
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SL9
Shoemaker Levy 9 impact with Jupiter
STF
Struve the Father double star
Stock
Stock open clusters (Stock 1 and 2 in,
Stock 3 to 23; Stock 24
SN
SUN
SN2014cx or SN2014cx
Supernova [could be followed by galaxy
in NGC337
catalog name]
SUN
Solar
T
TIC
Tycho Input Catalog
TR
Transit of object (generic)
TrES
Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey
TVLM
Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue
TYC
TYC2
Tycho Catalogue
Tycho-2 Catalogue
TRM
Trumpler — Robert Julius Trumpler's open
cluster list, published in Preliminary results
on the distances, dimensions and space
distribution of open star clusters
TRANS
TRANS-PSN
J07402601+5451127
Transient Object : Provisional PSN; TCP or
PNV
U
UBV
Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and
color of stars in UBV (Blanco et al. 1968)
UBV M
UBV Photoelectric Photometry
Catalogue (Mermilliod 1987)
UCACx
USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC1,
UCAC2, UCAC3 & UCAC4)
UGC
UGC12045
Uppsala General Catalogue
URA
Uranus [Planet]
USNO
USNOA1.0
US Naval Observatory
US Naval Observatory, A1.0 catalogue
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USNOA2.0
USNOB1.0
US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue
US Naval Observatory, B1.0 catalogue
V
VAR
VAR XX CON
vB
Variable Star (VAR SS CYG)
Van Biesbroeck's star catalog, variant,
"VB"
VENUS
VENUS
Venus [Planet]
VCC
Virgo Cluster Catalog
VdB
Van den Bergh (catalogue of reflection
nebulae)
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
WNC
Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars
Wo
Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue
Wolf
Catalogue of High Proper Motion
Stars (Wolf)
WR
Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars
X
Y
YZ
Yale Observatory Zone Catalog
Z
Z—
Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of
clusters of galaxies
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