New General Catalogue
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Organization
William Herschel, Dunsink Observatory, Royal Astronomical Society, revised by Sulentic and Tifft
Wavelength regime
Visible (naked eye)
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New General Catalog
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(NGC), standard reference list of nebulae (see nebula).
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New General Catalogue -- A catalogue of 7,840 nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies that was published in 1888 by John Dreyer.
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New General Catalogue
The New General Catalogue (NGC) is probably the most widely used catalogue of non-stellar astronomical objects.
NEW GENERAL CATALOG
The New General Catalog (NGC) is a list of over 13,000 deep-sky celestial objects. It was developed in 1888. For example, the Great Nebula in is NCG 1976 (and M42).
New General Catalogue (NGC) - (n.)
The common name for "A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars," put together by J. L. E. Dreyer in 1888.
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The New General Catalog (NGC) is a listing of nearly 8,000 non-stellar objects, such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, compiled by J.L.E. Dreyer over 100 years ago. Have you ever wondered how the NGC objects were numbered and organized?
The New General Catalogue was originally compiled by J.L.E. Dreyer in 1888. There are some ~8,000 objects with NGC numbers.
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NGC (New General Catalogue) number followed by IC (Index Catalogue);
Popular Name (if any);
Constellation of residence
Significant features including Messier (M) number (M 27 and M 57).
NGC = New General Catalog. Includes star clusters, galaxies, gaseous nebulae, and hallucinations, mostly from the visual surveys by the Herschels. Produced by J. Dreyer in the 1880s.
NGC. New General Catalogue. A list of some 7000 plus deep-sky objects.
New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (astronomical reference list)
Olbers’ paradox (astronomy)
Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) (British science society)
Rudolphine Tables (astronomy)
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New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars
Comas (user)
The great globular star cluster in Hercules
Glasgow Coma Scale
cluster headache
cluster (user)
cluster filesystem
Coma Berenices
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These are classified by the Messier catalogue of 110 objects and the much more comprehensive New General Catalogue which contains nearly 8,000 objects.
The name by which Robert Aitken's massive New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 120 degrees of the North Pole is generally known.
New General Catalog (NGC 1, NGC 2, etc.), which all start with NGC, and in this catalog the Andromeda Galaxy is known as NGC 224. There are nearly 8000 objects in this catalog.
It depends mainly on a preliminary version (Spring 1989) of the new General Catalogue of Trigonometric Parallaxes (YPC) prepared by Dr. William F. van Altena (Yale University).
This list contains selection of 109 targets out of 7840 New General Catalogue (NGC) objects as well as one (1) from a supplementary Index Catalogue (IC) of 5386 objects.
INDEX CATALOG
The Index Catalogs are two supplements to the New General Catalog, listing nebulae and star clusters with an IC number. These supplements were published in 895 and 1908.
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He called it the New General Catalogue. More information was added in the 20 next years such that its listings reached close to 15,000 objects. Astronomers refer to galaxies and nebulae by their NGC numbers.
Because of its position in the sky, the first two objects in the New General Catalogue (NGC) appear in the Pegasus.
It got its name after the Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27) in the constellation Vulpecula, which it resembles. It has two numbers in the New General Catalogue (NGC) because it was believed to consist of two separate nebulae.
1890 - John Dreyer publishes the New General Catalog of nebulae and star clusters
1932 - Harlow Shapley and Adelaide Ames publish A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude, later known as the Shapley-Ames Catalog ...
1878 - Dreyer published a supplement to the GC of about 1000 new objects, the New General Catalogue
1887 - Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically ...
(1931-93), none of the faint visual companions to Pollux listed in the Aitken's Double Star (ADS) Catalogue -- published as the "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 120 degrees of the North Pole" in 1932 by Robert Grant Aitken (1864-1955) ...
When William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus, was cataloging his list of what were then only known to be fuzzy objects, or nebulae, he also saw this object, and called it NGC 4392. NGC stands for New General Catalog, ...
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