List of astronomical catalogues
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.
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- 0ES — Einstein Slew Survey, version 0
- 1A, 2A, 3A — Lists of X-ray sources from the Ariel V satellite
- 1C — First Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 1ES — Einstein Slew Survey
- 1FGL, 2FGL — Lists of gamma-ray sources from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- 1RXH — ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations
- 1RXS — ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue, ROSAT All-Sky Survey Faint Source Catalog
- 1SWASP — SuperWASP
- 2A — see 1A
- 2C — Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 2E — The Einstein Observatory Soft X-ray Source List
- 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
- * 2MASX — Two Micron All Sky Survey, Extended source catalogue
- 2MASS-GC
- 3A — see 1A
- 3C — Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
- 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
- 8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec
- 9C — Ninth Cambridge survey at 15GHz
A
- A - Antalova
- AB - Azzopardi / Breysacher
- Abel
- Abell — Abell catalogue
- Abetti - Giorgio Abetti
- Abt -
- AC — Astrographic Catalogue
- A.C. - Alvan Clark
- Ac / Ack - Agnès Acker
- A.G.C. - Alvan Graham Clark
- AGC - Arecibo General Catalog
- ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue
- AFGL - Air Force Geophysical Laboratory
- Ag - Aguero
- AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog
- AH03 -
- Al - Allen
- Alden - H.L. Alden
- 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
- Alicante
- Aller - R.M. Aller
- ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars
- Alter
- Alves / Yun
- AM - Arp-Madore catalogue of globular star clusters
- An - Anderson
- Andrews / Lindsay
- Annis
- APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine
- Apriamashvili
- Ara -
- Arak / Ark - Marat Arsen Arakelian, 1929-1983
- Arce / Goodman
- Archinal - probably Brent A. Archinal
- Arg - F.W.A. Argelander
- ARO - Algonquin Radio Observatory
- Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
- ASCC — N.V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409
- Auner -
- Av-Hunter - Aveni / Hunter
- AXP - Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar
- AZ / AzV - Azzopardi-Vigneau
B
- β - S. W. Burnham
- βpm - Burnham's measures of proper motion stars, 1913 catalogue.
- B - Willem H. van den Bos
- B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae
- Ba - Barnard
- Ba - Baade
- BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog
- Bail / Bal - R. Baillaud
- Baize / Baz - Paul Baize
- Balbinot.
- Bar - Barkhatova
- BAR - E.E.Barton
- Bas - Basel
- Bat - Hans Battermann, 1860-1922
- BAT99 - The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- BAY — Uranometria
- BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars
- BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue
- BDS03 -
- BDSB -
- BDSB03 -
- Be - Bergvall
- Be — Berkeley
- Be - Bernes
- Bedin - Luigi Bedin
- 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
- BFS - Blitz-Fitch-Stark
- BH - Van den Bergh / Hagen, see also VdB-Ha
- Bhas/Bha - T.P.Bhaskavan
- Bi - Biurakan
- Bica -
- Bica / Schmitt
- Big - Guillaume Bigourdan
- Bird - F.Bird
- Bl - Victor Manuel Blanco
- Bloch/Blo - M. Bloch
- Bo - Bochum
- Bo - Bond
- BoBn - Boeshaar-Bond
- Bode -
- Boe - Boeger
- Bogleiv
- Bok
- Bonatto
- Boo - Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874-1965
- Boy - Bowyer
- BPI -
- BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey
- BPMA - Bordeaux Catalogue
- Bradley
- Brandt -
- Brand / Wouterloot
- Brey - Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf Rayet stars
- BRI — Bj, R, I survey
- Briceno
- Brosch -
- Brso/Bso - Brisbane Observatory, Australia
- Brt - S.G.Barton
- Btz - E.Bernewitz
- Bry - Walter William Bryant
- BV - Bohm-Vitense
- BVD - R.Benavides
C
- C — Caldwell catalogue
- Caballero-Solano -
- Calvet -
- Camargo -
- Canali -
- Capo/Cpo - Cape Observatory, South Africa
- CARMA
- Carpenter -
- Carraro -
- CBB -
- CCCP-Cl -
- CCCP-Gp -
- CCCS - Catalogue of Cool Carbon Stars
- 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
- CED - Cederblad
- CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes
- Cezar -
- CFBDSIR - Canada-France Brown Dwarf Survey
- CG - Cometary Globule
- CGCG - Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
- CGCS - Catalogue of Galactic Cool Carbon Stars
- CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars
- CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars
- Chaple -
- Chatard -
- Che - P. S. Chevalier
- Chereul -
- Chiravalle -.
- Chupina -
- CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations
- CLUST -
- CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue
- Cn - Cannon
- Cog - Cogshall
- Col - Collins
- Com - G. C. Comstock
- Cop - Copeland
- Coro/Coo - Cordoba Observatory, Argentina
- CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue
- * CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue
- Cou - Paul Couteau
- CP - Cambridge Pulsar
- CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue
- CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- Cr - Collinder
- Crinklaw -
- CRL - Cambridge Research Laboratory Sky-Survey
- Cruls/Cru - L. Cruls
- CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications
- CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables
- CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars
- Cz - Czernik
D
- D — James Dunlop
- DA — Dominion Observatory List A
- Danjon - Andre Danjon
- Danks -
- Dawes - W.R.Dawes
- δ - B.H.Dawson
- DBSB03, I.R. -
- DB2000
- DB2001
- DC -
- DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds
- DDO - David Dunlap Observatory
- DeHt - Dengel-Hartl
- Dem - Ercole Dembowski
- DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
- * DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation
- Desvoivres -
- DHW - Dengel-Hartl-Weinberger
- Dias - Wilton S. Dias, UNIFEI
- Dick - J.Dick
- Djorg - Stanislav George Djorgovski
- Dju - P.Djurkovic
- DM — Durchmusterung
- * BD — Bonner Durchmusterung
- * CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung
- * CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
- DN - Duus-Newell
- DO — Dearborn Observatory
- Do - Dolidze
- Dob - A.W.Doberck
- Dom - Jean Dommanget
- Don - H.F.Donner
- Donatiello - Giuseppe Donatiello
- Doo - Eric Doolittle
- DoDz - Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili
- Dorpat - Dorpat Observatory, Estonia
- DR - Downes and Rinehart microwave sources
- Du - Duner
- Δ - James Dunlop
- Dutra-Bica
- DWB - Dickel, Wendker, Bieritz
- Dwingeloo - Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey
E
- E -
- EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey
- Edg - D.W.Edgecomb
- Egb - Egbert
- EGB - Ellis-Grayson-Bond
- Eggen - Olin J. Eggen
- EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star
- Elosser -
- EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets
- Eng - Engelmann
- EPIC - Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog
- Escorial -
- ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog
- Esp - T. E. H. Espin
- Es/Birm - Espin/Birmingham
F
- F - Fath
- Fa - Fairall
- FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue
- Fei - Feinstein
- Feibelman
- Feigelson
- Ferrero
- Φ - W.S.Finsen
- Fg - Fleming
- FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue
- FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue
- Fle - J.O.Fleckenstein
- FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica
- For - L.Forgeron
- Fox - Philip Fox
- French - Sue French
- Fr - Frolov
- Franz - J.Franz
- Frh - R.Furuhjelm
- Frk - W.S.Franks
- FSC — Faint Source Catalogue
- FSR - Froebrich-Scholz-Raftery, I.R.
- Fur - H.Furner
G
- G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- * GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- * GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- * HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey
- Gale - W.F.Gale
- Gallo - J.Gallo
- GAn - G.Anderson
- GAIA DR 1
- GAIA DR 2
- GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
- GC — Boss general catalogue of 33342 stars
- GCRV — General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities
- GCTP — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes
- GCVS — General Catalog of Variable Stars
- Giclas - Henry L. Giclas
- Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue
- GJJC - Gillett-Jacoby-Joyce-Cohen
- Gli - J.M.Gilliss
- GLIMPSE -
- Glp - S. de Glasenapp
- GM - Gyulbudaghian-Maghakian
- Gol - H.Goldschmidt
- GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue
- * GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey
- Goyal - A.N.Goyal
- Graham
- Gr - Grant
- Grasdalen
- GR - Gibson-Reaves
- GRB - Gamma Ray Burst
- Grindlay
- GRO - Gamma Ray Observatory
- Groombridge
- GSC — Guide Star Catalog
- * GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II
- GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog
- * GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd
- Gsh - J.Glaisher
- GΣ - G.Struve
- Gtb - K.Gottlieb
- Gui - J.Guillaume
- Gum - Gum catalog of emission nebulae
H
- h - John Herschel
- H - Haro
- H - Harvard
- H - William Herschel
- HA - ?
- Haf - Haffner
- Hall - Asaph Hall
- HAT - Hungarian Automated Telescope
- HaTr - Hartl-Tritton
- Hav/Moffat - Havlen-Moffat
- Hb - Hubble
- HC - Howell-Crisp
- HCG — Hickson Compact Group
- HCWils - H.C.Wilson
- HD - Henry Draper Catalogue
- HDE — Henry Draper Extension
- HdO - Harvard Observatory USA, and stations elsewhere
- HDW - Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger
- Hdz - Harvard Zone Catalogues
- HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey
- He - Henize
- Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds
- Hf - Hoffleit
- HFG - Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull
- HH - Herbig-Haro objects
- HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue
- HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue
- HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey
- Hld - E.S.Holden
- Hlm - E.Holmes
- Hln - Frank Holden
- HN - William Herschel's 1821 catalogue
- Ho - Hogg
- Ho - G.W.Hough
- Holmberg - Erik Holmberg
- Hooke - Robert Hooke
- Howe - H.A.Howe
- HP - Haute Provence
- HR — Bright Star Catalogue
- Hrg - L.Hargrave
- Hrr - Harrington
- HΣ - Hermann Struve
- HSC - Hubble Source Catalog
- Hst - C.S.Hastings
- Hu - Humason
- Hu - W.J.Hussey
- Huygens - Christiaan Huygens
- HV - Harvard Variable
- HVS - HyperVelocity Stars
- Hynek - J. Allen Hynek
- Hz - Wulff D. Heintz
- Hzg - E.Hertzsprung
I
- I - Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes
- IC — Index Catalogue
- * IC I — Index Catalogue I
- * IC II — Index Catalogue II
- IDS — Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars
- IGR — Integral Gamma-Ray source
- IPHAS — The INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane
- IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite
- IRS — International Reference Star
- Isk - Iskudarian
- Isserstedt
- IsWe - Ishida-Weinberger
- Ivanov
J
- J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations
- Ja - Jacoby
- JaFu - Jacoby-Fullton
- JAn - John A. Anderson
- Jc - William Stephen Jacob
- Jef - H.M.Jeffers
- Jn - Jones
- JnEr - Jones-Emberson
- Jo - Jones
- Johansson -
- Joy - Alfred Harrison Joy
- Jsp - Morris Ketchum Jessup
- Juchert -
- Juchert-Saloranta
- JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.
K
- K - Lubos Kohoutek
- Ka - Valentina Karachentseva
- Karhula -
- - K2 catalog
- KELT - Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
- Kemble - Father Lucian Kemble
- Kepler — Kepler catalog
- Kes - Kesteven. For example: Kesteven 79
- Kharchenko
- K / Kg - Ivan R. King
- KIC — Kepler Input Catalog
- KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman
- KjPn - Kazaryan-Parsamyan
- Klemola
- KnFs - Kinman-Feast-Lasker
- Knott / Kn - G.Knott
- KOI — Kepler Object of Interest
- Kontizas
- Koposov
- Kr - A.Kruger
- Kron -
- Kronberger -
- Kru - E.C.Kruger
- Ku - F.Kustner
- KUG - Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies
- Kui - Gerard P. Kuiper, 1905-73
- KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object
L
- L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey
- La - Langley
- Lac - N. de Lacaille, 1713-62
- Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky
- * Lac I — Nebulae
- * Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters
- * Lac III — Nebulous Stars
- Laevens -
- Lal - F. de Lalande
- Lam - J. von Lamont
- λ -
- *Printed examples from the 'Lambda' catalogue: λ 32, λ 88, λ 91, λ 96, λ 108, λ 115, λ 140, λ 176, λ 228, λ 249, λ 316, λ ?, λ 320, λ 342. 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
- Latham -
- Latysev -
- Lau - H.E.Lau
- LBN — Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae
- Lbz - P.Labitzke
- LDN — Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae
- LDS — Luyten Double Star catalogue
- LEDA — Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
- Lederman -
- Le Gentil -
- Leon - Frederick C. Leonard
- Lewis - Thomas Lewis
- LFT — Luyten Five-Tenths catalogue
- LG11 — Lépine & Gaidos 2011, bright M dwarfs
- LGG - Lyons Groups of Galaxies
- LGS -
- LHA - Lamont-Hussey Alpha
- LHS — Luyten Half-Second catalogue
- Liller
- Lo - Lars Olof Loden
- Lo - Longmore
- Loiano -
- Lorenzin -
- LoTr - Longmore-Tritton
- LP — Luyten-Palomar Survey
- LPM — Luyten Proper-Motion Catalogue
- LPO - La Plata Observatory, Argentina
- LS — either of two "Luminous Stars" catalogues; see LSN and LSS, below
- LS - Lensed Star
- LSA - Lundstrom-Stenholm-Acker
- 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
- Luginbuhl-Skiff -
- Luhman -
- Luy - W.J.Luyten
- Lv - Francis Preserved Leavenworth
- Ly - Lynga
M
- M — Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters
- M - Minkowski
- Ma - J.H.Madler
- Mac - Maclear
- MACS - Massive Cluster Survey
- MACHO — MACHO Project lensing events
- * MACHO-LMC — MACHO Project Large Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
- * MACHO-SML — MACHO Project Small Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
- Maffei - Paolo Maffei
- Malin - David Malin
- Mamajek
- Markov
- MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image
- Mayer
- McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog
- MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
- MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford
- Me - Merrill
- Mel - Melotte Catalogue of open star clusters
- Mercer -
- Mh - O.M.Mitchel
- Mil - J.A.Miller
- Miller
- Milb - W.Milburn
- MlbO - Melbourne Observatory, Australia
- Mlf - Frank Muller
- Mlr - Paul Muller
- Moffat
- Moitinho
- MPC — Minor Planet Circulars contain astrometric observations, orbits and ephemerides of both minor planets and comets
- Mrk - Benjamin "Benik" Egishevitch Markarian
- MSH — Mills, Slee, Hill - Catalog of Radio Sources
- Muzzio
- MW — Mandel-Wilson Catalogue of Unexplored Nebulae, not in SIMBAD yet
- MWP - Motch-Werner-Pakull
- MyCn - Mayall-Cannon
- Mz - Menzel
N
- N -
- Na - Nassau
- Naillon -
- N30 — Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30
- Neckerman .
- NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
- Negueruela -
- NeVe - Neckel-Vehrenberg
- New - ?
- * New 1 in Cetus.
- * New 5 in Sagittarius.
- * New 6 in Indus
- NGC — New General Catalogue
- NGTS - Next Generation Transit Survey
- NHICAT — Northern HIPASS Catalog
- NLTT — New Luyten Two-Tenths Catalogue
- NOMAD — The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset
- NStars — Nearby Stars Database
- NSV — New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars
- NZO - New Zealand Observatory
O
- O - O'Neal
- OEC — Open Exoplanet Catalogue
- OGLE — Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
- Ol - Charles Pollard Olivier
- Opik - Ernst J. Opik
- OSC — Open Supernova Catalog
- OΣ - Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue, 1843
- OΣΣ - Otto Struve, Pulkovo Catalogue Supplement, 1843
- OSS — Ohio Sky Survey
- OTC — Open TDE Catalog
- OTS - Oasa-Tamura-Sugitani
- Ou - Nicolas Outters .
P
- P - Perrine
- PAL — Palomar Globular Clusters
- Par - Parkhurst
- PB - Peimbert-Batiz
- PC - Peimbert-Costero
- Pe - Perek
- Perr - Perrotin
- Perry - Perry
- PG - Palomar-Green
- PGC — Principal Galaxies Catalogue
- PH - Planet Hunters
- PHL — Palomar-Haro-Luyten catalogue
- Pi - Pismis
- PK — Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae
- PKS - Parkes Catalogue of Radio Sources
- Platais - Imants Platais' catalogue of open star clusters
- Plq - Paloque
- PLX — General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes and Supplement
- PM - Preite Martinez
- PMC — Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog
- PN — See PNG
- PNG — Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae
- Pol - Pollock
- Pou - Pourteau
- PPM — Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogues
- Pri - Pritchett
- PrO - Perth Observatory, Australia
- Prz - Przbyllok
- Ps - Francis G. Pease
- PSR - Pulsating Source of Radio
- PTFO — Palomar Transient Factory
- Ptt - Pettit
- Pu - Purgathofer
- PuWe - Purgathofer-Weinberger
- Pz - Piazzi
Q
- Q -
- QES - QATAR Exoplanet Survey
- QSO — Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects
- QZM -
R
- R - Radcliffe Observatory
- R - Rose
- R - H.C.Russell
- Raab
- RAFGL - Revised Air Force Geophysical Laboratory
- Raymond -
- RC — Reference Catalogue
- * RC2 — Reference Catalogue, 2nd edition
- * RC3 — Reference Catalogue, 3rd edition
- RCW — Rodgers-Campbell-Whiteoak A catalogue of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way
- RECONS — Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
- Reiland -
- Reinmuth -
- Renou
- Reyle-Robin -
- Richaud - Jean Richaud, 1633-93
- Riddle -
- Rmk - C.L.C.Rumker
- RMM -
- RNGC — Revised New General Catalogue
- Ro - Curt Roslund
- Roberts -
- Roe - Edward Drake Roe, 1859-1929
- Roman-Lopes -
- Ross — Ross Catalogue of New Proper Motion Stars
- ROT — Catalogue of Rotational Velocities of the Stars
- RSA — Revised Shapley-Ames Catalogue
- RSGC - Red Super Giant Cluster
- RST — Catalogue of southern double stars
- Ru - Jaroslav Ruprecht
- RX — ROSAT observations
S
- S - James South, 1785-1867
- Sa - Sanduleak
- SA - Sandqvist
- SACS — Second Astrolabe Catalogue of Santiago
- Saloranta - Jaakko Saloranta
- SAO — Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
- Saurer -
- SaWe - Sanduleak-Weinberger
- SAX - Satellite per Astronomia a raggi X
- SC — Slough catalogue
- Schb - J.M.Schaeberle
- Schj - H.C.F.C.Schjellerup
- Schoenberg -
- Schuster -
- SCM — Schwarz, Corradi, Melnick catalogue.
- Scott - J.L.Scott
- SCR — SuperCOSMOS-RECONS
- SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- * SDSSp — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, provisory
- * 1SDSS — Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 1st release
- * 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
- Se - Sersic
- See - T.J.J.See .
- SEGUE - Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration
- Sei - J.Scheiner
- SGR - Soft Gamma Repeater
- Sh — Sharpless catalog & Sh 2)
- Sh - Sher
- S, h - James South / John Herschel
- Shk - Romela Karapet Shakhbazian
- Shorlin -
- Simeis -
- SIMP — Sondage Infrarouge de Mouvement Propre
- Sinnott -
- SIPS — Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey
- Sk - Skinner
- SL - Sandqvist-Lindroos
- Slr - R.P.Sellors
- Smart - W.M.Smart
- Smyth - W.H.Smyth
- Sn - Shane
- Sp - G.V.Schiaparelli
- Sp - Shapley
- Spano -
- SPF2 — Second Cat of Fundamental Stars
- SPF3 — Third Santiago-Pulkovo Fundamental Star Catalogue
- SPOCS — Spectroscopic Properties of Cool Stars
- SRS — Southern Reference Star Catalog
- SS - Sadler and Sharp
- SS - Sanduleak-Stephenson
- SSSPM — SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey
- SSTc2d — Spitzer Space Telescope c2d Legacy Source
- St - Carl L. Stearns
- Ste - Stephenson
- Stein - Johan Stein
- Steine -
- STF — Struve the Father double stars
- * ΣI - W.Struve, First Supplement
- * ΣII - W.Struve, Second Supplement
- St / Stock — Stock open clusters
- Stone - Ormond Stone
- Streicher -
- Stromlo -
- StWr - Stock-Wroblewski
- Sw - Swift
- SWEEPS - Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search
- Swift
- SwSt - Swings-Struve
- SyO - Sydney Observatory, Australia
T
- Ta - Tarrant
- TAC — Twin Astrograph Catalog
- Tc - Thackeray
- TD1 — Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes
- Terzan — Agop Terzan Catalogue of Globular Star Clusters
- TIC — Tycho Input Catalog
- Tom - Tombaugh
- Ton - Tonantzintla
- TPK - Teutsch-Patchick-Kronberger
- TRAPPIST - Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope
- 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
- 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
U
- UBV — Photoelectric Catalogue, magnitude and color of stars in UBV
- UBV M — UBV Photoelectric Photometry Catalogue
- UCAC — USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog
- UGC — Uppsala General Catalogue
- UGCA - Uppsala Selected non-UGC Galaxies
- UKS - United Kingdom Schmidt
- ULAS - UKIDDS Large Area Survey
- Up - Upgren
- Up - Upton
- USNO — US Naval Observatory
- * USNO-A1.0 — US Naval Observatory, A1.0 catalogue
- * USNO-A2.0 — US Naval Observatory, A2.0 catalogue
- * 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
V
- vB — Van Biesbroeck's star catalog, variant, "VB"
- VBRC
- VCC — Virgo Cluster Catalog
- Vd - Vandervort
- VdB — Van den Bergh
- VdB-H - Van den Bergh-Herbst
- VdB-Ha - Van den Bergh-Hagen
- VFTS - VLT Flames Tarantula Survey
- Vou - J.G.E.G. Voute
- VPHAS+ The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane and Bulge
- VV — Vorontsov-Vel'yaminov Interacting Galaxies ¨
- VVV Survey — Vista Variables in the Via Lactea
- VVV-CL -
- Vy - Vyssotsky
W
- W - Radiosource
- W20 — Washington 20 Catalog
- Wa / Ward - I.W.Ward
- Wa - Waterloo
- WASP — Wide Angle Search for Planets survey
- WASP0-TR — Wide Angle Search for Planets, Transit
- WDS — Washington Double Star Catalog
- We - Weinberger
- We - Westerlund
- Webb - T.W.Webb
- WeDe - Weinberger-Dengle
- Weisse - M.Weisse
- WeSa - Weinberger-Sabbadin
- Wg - R.W.Wrigley
- WhMe - Whitelock-Menzies
- Willman - Beth Willman
- Wils - R.H.Wilson, jr.
- Win - Winlock
- Wirtz - Carl Wirtz
- WISE — Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
- WISEP — ?
- WNC / Winn — Winnecke Catalogue of Double Stars
- WNO - Washington Observations
- Wo — Woolley Nearby Star Catalogue
- Wolf — Catalogue of High Proper Motion Stars
- Worley - Charles E. Worley
- 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
- XO - XO-Project
- XTE — X-ray Timing Explorer
- XZ - XZ Catalogue of Zodiacal Stars
Y
- Y - Young
- YBS - Yale Bright Star Catalogue
- YZ — Yale Observatory Zone Catalog
Z
- Z — Fritz Zwicky, Catalogue of galaxies and of clusters of galaxies
- ZC - Robertson's Zodiacal Catalogue
- Zij — Islamic astronomical books that tabulates parameters used for astronomical calculations of the positions of the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets
- *Book of Fixed Stars
- *Tables of Toledo
- *Zij-i Ilkhani
- *Zij-i-Sultani