Astronomical surveys generally involve imaging or mapping of regions of the sky using Telescopes.
Astronomical surveys will often set a magnitude limit and attempt to detect all sources brighter than that magnitude.
First results from a major astronomical survey using a cutting-edge technique appear to have confirmed the existence of mysterious dark energy.
Astronomical catalogs are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind.
Catalogs of Historical Importance
* Johann Bayer's Uranometria star atlas (Greek letters on a star map)
* Sir Patrick Moore's Caldwell catalogue (C1 â€" C109) ...
The results of five intensive radio-astronomical surveys (1C, 2C, 3C, 4C and 5C) under the direction of Sir Martin Ryle and Anthony Hewish, during the l950s, 1960s and 1970s, at Cambridge. [A84]
Z Camelopardalis Stars ...
The USS Enterprise-D conducted an astronomical survey of a new pulsar cluster in the Epsilon IX sector in 2365. (TNG: "Samaritan Snare") ...
Extracts from the VISTA image of the Monoceros R2 star forming region. Image: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Image: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.
in Denmark in March 1983 and refurbished before shipping to the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands in August 1983. It is operated through a tripartite collaboration between the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit, ...
as well as the filaments of gas and dust where new stars are being born. The nebula is about 1,350 light-years away, and is visible to the unaided eye as a faint smudge of light below Orion's Belt. [ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA/Cambridge Astronomical Survey ...
Many astronomers work entirely from astronomical survey or space observatory data. Others work with radio telescopes like the Very Large Array, which is entirely automated, although it is maintained by telescope operators.
 See also: Light, Star, Telescope, Planet, Sky
  
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