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 catalogues are usually the result of an astronomical survey of some kind.

0–9

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, version 1

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 (Globular Clusters, I.R.) (2MASS-GC 01 and 2MASS-GC 02 are Hurt 1 and Hurt 2) (source: Bruno Alessi)

3A — see 1A

3C (and 3CR) — Third Cambridge 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 of Radio Sources

8C — Eighth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources

8pc — 8 parsec listing, all stars within 8 parsec

9C — Ninth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources

10C — Tenth Cambridge Survey of Radio Sources

A

AAVSO — American Association of Variable Star Observers

AB — Azzopardi / Breysacher (Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, SMC)

Abel (globular star clusters)

Abell — Abell catalogue

Abetti — Giorgio Abetti (double stars)

Abt — (for example: open star cluster Abt 1 = Byurakan 4 = Markarian 6 = Stock 7) (at 2:29.6 / +60°39' near the southwestern section of the Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia)

AC — Astrographic Catalogue

A.C. — Alvan Clark (double stars)

Ac / Ack — Agnès Acker (planetary nebulae)

A.G.C. — Alvan Graham Clark (double stars)

AGC — Arecibo General Catalog

ADS — Aitken Double Star Catalogue

AFGL — Air Force Geophysical Laboratory

Ag — Estela L. Agüero (catalogue of peculiar galaxies, captured during the National Geographic Society — Palomar Observatory Sky Survey) (POSS)

AG, AGK, AGKR — Astronomische Gesellschaft Katalog

AH03 — (star clusters) (source: Bruno Alessi's list)

Al — David Anthony Allen (planetary nebulae)

Alden — Harold Lee Alden (double stars)

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 (double stars)

Alicante (for example: open star cluster Alicante 1 at 3:59:18 / +57°14'14", in Camelopardalis). Alicante 1 looks like a chain of dim stars with two relatively bright accompanying stars known as TYC 3725-498-1 and TYC 3725-866-1 (source: Wikisky)

Aller — R.M. Aller (double stars) (Ramón María Aller Ulloa?)

ALS — UBV beta database for Case-Hamburg Northern and Southern Luminous Stars

Alter (open star clusters) (for example: Alter 1 at 0:31:56.9 / +63°09'47" in Cassiopeia) (Alter 1 = King 14 = Alter Cluster)

Alves / Yun (open star clusters)

AM — Arp-Madore catalogue of open and globular star clusters (Halton Arp / Barry F. Madore) (for example: Arp-Madore 1 in Horologium, Arp-Madore 2 in Puppis)

An — Anderson (double stars) (John August Anderson?)

Andrews / Lindsay (AL) (open star clusters) (for example: Andrews-Lindsay 1 at 13:15:16 / -65°55'12" in Musca) (AL 1 is also known as vdB-Hagen 144)

Annis (?)

APEC — Asteroids Past Earth Close Encounters, Sormano Astronomical Observatory

APM — Automatic Plate Measuring machine

Ap — S. P. Apriamasvili (Apriamashvili) or Semen Petrovich Apriamasvili (Russian: Семен Петрович Априамашвили) (open star clusters) (the open star cluster Basel 1 at about one degree WNW of Messier 11 is also known as the Apriamashvili cluster)

Ara — (for example: Ara 2035 at 7:08.8/-24°03' in Canis Major) (S.Aravamudan?)

Arak / Ark — Marat Arsen Arakelian, 1929–1983 (Arakelian Emission Line Objects)

Arce / Goodman (open star clusters)

Archinal — probably Brent A. Archinal (for example: open star cluster Archinal 1 at 18:54:49 / +5°32'54" in Serpens Cauda)

Arg — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (double stars)

ARO — Algonquin Radio Observatory

Arp — Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

ASCC — Nina V. Kharchenko, All-Sky Compiled Catalogue, Kinematika Fiz. Nebesn. Tel., 17, part no 5, 409 (2001)

AT-HYG — Augmented Tycho + HYG (Hipparcos, Yale, and Gliese) database

Auner — (for example: open star cluster Auner 1 at 7:04:16 / -19°45'00" in Canis Major) (Auner 1 is the cluster which was "lost" in the disturbing ghost reflection of nearby Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius, this during the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, POSS)

Av — Anna Antalová (open star clusters) (for example: Antalova 1 at 17:28:55 / -31°34'11' in Scorpius)

Av-Hunter — Aveni / Hunter (open star clusters) (for example: Aveni-Hunter 1 at 23:37:48 / +48°31'12", north of the former constellation Honores Friderici in Andromeda)

AXP — Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar

AZ / AzV — Azzopardi-Vigneau (Marc Anthony Azzopardi and Jean Vigneau)

B

β — Sherburne Wesley Burnham (double stars)

βpm — Burnham's measures of proper motion stars, 1913 catalogue

B — Willem H. van den Bos (double stars)

B — E. E. Barnard's List of Dark Nebulae

B2 — Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz (9929 radio sources) performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope

B3 — The New Bologna Sky Survey at 408 MHz (13354 radio sources) performed with the Northern Cross Radio Telescope

Ba — Barnard (double stars)

Ba — Walter Baade (planetary nebulae)

BAC — Bordeaux Astrographic Catalog

Bail / Bal — René Baillaud (double stars)

Baize / Baz — Paul Baize (Paul Achille-Ariel Baize, 1901–1995) (double stars)

Balbinot (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster Balbinot 1 in Pegasus)

Bar — Klavdiâ Barkhatova (open star clusters) (for example: Barkhatova 1, NNW of NGC 7000; the North America Nebula in Cygnus)

BAR — E. E. Barton (double stars)

Bas — Basel (open star clusters) (for example: Basel 1 at about one degree WNW of open star cluster Messier 11 in Scutum) (Basel 1 is also known as the Apriamashvili cluster)

Bat — Hans Battermann, 1860–1922 (double stars)

BAT99 — The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf–Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation)

BCDSP — Bica-Claria-Dottori-Santos-Piatti

BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars

BD — Bonner Durchmusterung

BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue

BDS03 (I.R.) — (open star clusters)

BDSB — (for example: open star cluster BDSB 96 at 7:05:18 / -12°19'44")

BDSB03 (I.R.) — (open star clusters)

Be — Nils Bergvall (catalogue of some 400 interacting and distorted galaxies found on glass copies of the ESO Blue Survey)

Be — Berkeley (open star clusters) (104 items)

Be — Claes Bernes (dark nebulae)

Bedin — Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Bedin I in Pavo)

Ben — Jack Bennett / John Caister 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 (for example: Bergeron 1 in Cepheus)

BFS — Blitz-Fitch-Stark (galactic nebulae) (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus)

BH — Van den Bergh / Hagen (open star clusters), see also VdB-Ha

Bhas/Bha — T. P. Bhaskaran (double stars)

Bi — Byurakan (open star clusters)

Bica — Eduardo Luiz Damiani Bica (open star clusters)

Bica / Schmitt (open star clusters)

Big — Guillaume Bigourdan (double stars)

Bird — F. Bird (double stars)

Bl — Víctor Manuel Blanco (for example: open star cluster Blanco 1 in Sculptor)

BlDz — Blaauw-Danziger (planetary nebulae)

Bloch/Blo — Marie Bloch (double stars)

Bo — Bochum Observatory (open star clusters)

Bo — Bond (double stars)

BoBn — Boeshaar-Bond (planetary nebulae) (for example: BoBn 1, an extragalactic planetary nebula at 0:37 / -13°42' in Cetus)

Bode — (telescopic asterisms)

Boe — Ernest Augustus Boeger (double stars)

Bogleiv (open star clusters)

Bonatto — Charles José Bonatto (open star clusters)

Boo — Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874–1965 (double stars)

Boy — Charles Stuart Bowyer (double stars)

BPI — (open star clusters)

BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten)

BPMA — Bordeaux Catalogue (double stars)

Bradley

Brandt — (for example: open star cluster Brandt 1 at 8:09:32 / -47°20'12") ( = Pozzo 1) (very near Gamma Velorum, also known as 'Regor')

Brand / Wouterloot (BW) (open star clusters)

Brey — Jacques Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf–Rayet stars

BRI — Bj, R, I survey

Briceno (open star clusters) — César Briceño (for example: Briceno 1 at the star 25 Orionis)

BRHT — Bhatia-Read-Hatzidimitriou-Tritton

Brosch — Noah Brosch (open star clusters)

Brso/Bso — Brisbane Observatory, Australia (double stars)

Brt — Samuel Goodwin Barton (double stars)

Btz — Ernst Bernewitz (double stars)

Bry — Walter William Bryant (double stars)

BSDL — Bica-Schmitt-Dutra-Oliveira Cluster

BV — Bohm-Vitense (planetary nebulae)

BVD — Rafael Benavides Palencia (double stars)

C

C — Caldwell catalogue (Sir Patrick Moore)

Caballero-Solano — (for example: open star cluster Caballero-Solano 1 at Delta Orionis, also known as the Mintaka cluster)

Calvet — Nuria Calvet (telescopic asterisms)

Camargo — Denilso Camargo (open star clusters)

Canali — (telescopic asterisms)

Capo/Cpo — Cape Observatory, South Africa (double stars)

CARMA

Carpenter — (for example: Carpenter 1 at galactic coordinates 213.34 / -12.60) (= BDB 229, = FSR 1086, = MWSC 732)

Carraro — (for example: open star cluster Carraro 1 at 10:37:00 / -58°44'00") (NW of the Eta Carinae Nebula)

CBB — (open star clusters)

CCCP-Cl — (open star clusters)

CCCP-Gp — (open star clusters)

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 — Sven Cederblad (gaseous nebula)

CEL — Celescope Catalogue of Ultraviolet Magnitudes

Cezar — (for example: Cezar 6 at galactic coordinates 204.93 / -13.83)

CF – Cape Observatory Faint Stars survey (Spencer Jones)

CFBDSIR — Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey-InfraRed

CG — Cometary Globule (for example: CG 4 in Puppis, also known as 'God's Hand')

CGCG — Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies

CGCS — Catalogue of Galactic Cool Carbon Stars

CGMW — Candidate Galaxy behind the Milky Way (planetary nebulae)

CGO — Catalogue of Galactic O Stars

CGSS — Catalogue of Galactic S Stars

Chaple — Glenn Chaple (for example: Chaple 1 at galactic coordinates 74.46 / +3.66, which is an asterism called Chaple's Arc, and also Cygnus Fairy Ring, and HD 190466 Group, and Ramakers 20)

Chatard — Jean-Pierre Chatard (telescopic asterisms)

Che — P. S. Chevalier (double stars)

Chereul — E. Chereul (moving groups of stars)

Chiravalle — John Chiravalle (for example: Chiravalle 1 in Hercules, at galactic coordinates 75.25 / +27.91, which is an asterism called Candle and Holder).

Chupina — Natalia Victorovna Chupina (Chupina objects 1 to 5 are located at and near open star cluster Messier 67 in Cancer)

CIO — Catalog of Infrared Observations

CLUST — (open star clusters)

CMC — Carlsberg Meridian Catalogue

Cn — Cannon (planetary nebulae) (Cn1 / Cn2 / Cn3)

Cog — Wilbur Adelman Cogshall (double stars)

Col — Collins (double stars)

Com — George Cary Comstock (double stars)

Cop — Ralph Copeland (double stars)

Coro/Coo — Córdoba Observatory, Argentina (double stars)

CoRoT — CoRoT Catalogue

CoRoT-Exo — CoRoT Catalogue

Cou — Paul Couteau (double stars)

CP — Cambridge Pulsar

CPC — Cape Photographic Catalogue

CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung

Cr — Collinder (open star clusters) (Per Collinder)

Crinklaw — Greg Crinklaw (telescopic asterisms)

CRL — Cambridge Research Laboratory Sky-Survey (three color infrared sky survey)

Cruls/Cru — Luís Cruls (double stars)

CSI — Catalog of Stellar Identifications

CSV — Catalog of Suspected Variables

CSS — General Catalogue of S Stars

CTB — Caltech Observatory, list B (galactic nebulae)

CTSS — Capellaro-Turatto-Salvadori-Sabbadin (planetary nebulae)

Cz — Mieczysław Czernik (open star clusters)

D

D — James Dunlop (A catalogue of nebulae and clusters of stars in the southern hemisphere, observed at Parramatta in New South Wales)

DA — Dominion Observatory List A

Danjon — André-Louis Danjon (double stars)

Danks — (open star clusters) (for example: Danks 1 & 2, located near the northeastern Centaurus section of the Coalsack Nebula)

Dawes — William Rutter Dawes (double stars)

δ — Bernhard Hildebrandt Dawson (double stars)

DBSB03, I.R. — (open star clusters)

DB2000 (Dutra-Bica 2000, I.R.) (open star clusters)

DB2001 (Dutra-Bica 2001, I.R.) (open star clusters)

DC — Drake Cluster (open star clusters) (Andrew John Drake)

DCld — A catalogue of southern dark clouds

DDO — David Dunlap Observatory (Dwarf Galaxies)

DeHt — Dengel-Hartl (Dengl-Hartl) (planetary nebulae) (for example: DeHt 1 at 5:55 / -22°54' in Lepus)

Dem — Ercole Dembowski (double stars)

DENIS — Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky

DENIS-P — Deep Near Infrared Survey, Provisory designation

Desvoivres — Emmanuel Desvoivres (telescopic asterisms)

DG — Dorschner-Gürtler (galactic nebulae)

DHW — Dengel-Hartl-Weinberger (planetary nebulae)

Dias — Wilton S. Dias, UNIFEI (open star clusters)

Dick — J. Dick (double stars)

Djorg — Stanislav George Djorgovski (globular star clusters) (for example: Djorgovski 1 in Scorpius)

Dju — Petar Đurković (P. Djurkovic) (double stars)

DM — Durchmusterung

BD — Bonner Durchmusterung

CD / CoD — Cordoba Durchmusterung

CPD — Cape Photographic Durchmusterung

DN — Duus-Newell (Catalogue of Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies) (Alan Duus / Barry Newell)

DO — Dearborn Observatory

Do — Madona V. Dolidze (open star clusters) (57 items)

Dob — August William Doberck (double stars)

Dom — Jean Dommanget (double stars)

Don — Henry Frederick Donner (double stars)

Donatiello — Giuseppe Donatiello (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Donatiello I in Andromeda)

Doo — Eric Doolittle (double stars)

DoDz — Dolidze-Dzimselejsvili (open star clusters) (11 items)

Dorpat — Dorpat Observatory, Estonia

DR — Downes and Rinehart microwave sources

Du — Nils Christoffer Dunér (double stars)

Δ — James Dunlop (double stars)

Dutra-Bica — Carlos Maximiliano Dutra and Eduardo Luiz Damiani Bica (open star clusters)

DWB — Dickel, Wendker, Bieritz (A catalogue of optically visible HII regions in the Cygnus X region)

Dwingeloo — Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey (DOGS) (for example: Dwingeloo 1 and Dwingeloo 2 in Cassiopeia)

E

E — (for example: globular star cluster E 3 at 9:20:59 / -77°16'57", in Chamaeleon) (source: Bruno S. Alessi's and Wilton S. Dias's lists)

EC — Edinburgh-Cape Blue Object Survey

Edg — Daniel W. Edgecomb (double stars)

[EG97] — Eckart + Genzel, 1997 (Stars close to Sagittarius A*, like [EG97]S2.)

Egb — Egbert (double stars)

EGB — Ellis-Grayson-Bond (planetary nebulae)

Eggen — Olin J. Eggen (double stars)

EGGR — Eggen-Greenstein proper motion star

Elosser — David Elosser (telescopic asterisms)

EMP — Ephemerides of Minor Planets

Eng — Engelmann (double stars)

EPIC — Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog

Escorial — (open star clusters)

ESO — European Southern Observatory Catalog, ESO/Uppsala catalog

Esp — T. E. H. Espin (double stars)

Es/Birm — Espin/Birmingham (catalogue of red stars)

F

F — Fath — Edward Arthur Fath, 1880–1959 (for example: galaxy Fath 703, aka NGC 5892, in Libra)

Fa — Fairall (Anthony Patrick Fairall, 1943–2008)

FCC — Fornax Cluster Catalogue

Fei — Feinstein (open star clusters) (for example: Feinstein 1 at 11:05:56 / -59°49'00" in Carina)

Feibelman (for example: open star cluster Feibelman 1 near 'The Revenante of the Swan' 34-P Cygni)

Feigelson — Eric D. Feigelson (for example: open star cluster Feigelson 1 at 11:59:51 / -78°12'27", in Chamaeleon, at the binary star Epsilon Chamaeleonis)

Ferrero (telescopic asterisms)

Φ — William Stephen Finsen (double stars)

Fg — Williamina Fleming (planetary nebulae), for example: Fleming 1

FK4 — Fourth Fundamental Catalogue

FK5 — Fifth Fundamental Catalogue

Fle — Joachim Otto Fleckenstein (double stars)

FLM — Historia coelestis Britannica (Flamsteed designation)

For — Lucien Forgeron (double stars)

Fox — Philip Fox (double stars)

French — Sue French (from Sky and Telescope)

Fr — Frolov (open star clusters) (for example: Frolov 1 at 23:57:25 / +61°37'48" in Cassiopeia)

Franz — J. Franz (double stars)

Frh — Ragnar Furuhjelm (double stars)

Frk — W. S. Franks (double stars and colours of stars) (probably William Sadler Franks, published a catalogue of the colours of 3890 stars)

FSC — Faint Source Catalogue

FSR — Froebrich-Scholz-Raftery, I.R. (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star cluster FSR 1758 in Scorpius)

Fur — Herbert Henry Furner (double stars)

G

G — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas)

GD — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas dwarf)

GR* — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas red star)

HG — Lowell Proper Motion Survey (Giclas Hyades)

Gale — Walter Frederick Gale (double stars)

Gallo — J. Gallo (double stars)

GAn — G. Anderson (double stars)

Gaia catalogues (general purpose)

Gaia DR1

Gaia DR2

Gaia EDR3

Gaia DR3

GC — General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters

GC (Boss) — 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 (double stars)

Gl / GJ — Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue or Gliese–Jahreiß catalogue

GJJC — Gillett-Jacoby-Joyce-Cohen (planetary nebulae)

Gli — James Melville Gilliss (double stars)

GLIMPSE — (together with Mercer in the list of 10978 star clusters)

GLMP — Garcia-Lario-Manchado-Pych (planetary nebulae)

Glp — S. de Glasenapp (double stars)

GM — Gyulbudaghian-Maghakian (planetary nebulae) (Armen L. Gyulbudaghian and Tigran Yu. Magakian)

GN — Atlas Galaktischer Nebel (galactic nebulae)

Gol — Hermann Goldschmidt (double stars)

GOS — Galactic O Star Catalogue

GOSSS — Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey

Goyal — A.N. Goyal (double stars)

Graham (for example: open star cluster Graham 1 at 10:56:32 / -63:01:04 in Carina)

Gr — Grant (double stars)

Grasdalen — Gary Lars Grasdalen (open star clusters)

GR — Gibson Reaves (for example: Gibson Reaves 8 (GR 8) (galaxy) in Virgo) (Gibson Reaves, 1923–2005)

GRB — Gamma Ray Burst

Grindlay — Jonathan E. Grindlay (globular star clusters) (for example: Grindlay 1 in Scorpius, at 17:32.0 / -33°50')

GRO — Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA — Compton)

Groombridge (Stephen Groombridge, 1755–1832)

GSC — Guide Star Catalog

GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II

GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog

GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd

Gsh — James Glaisher (double stars)

GΣ — G. Struve (double stars)

Gtb — K. Gottlieb (double stars)

Gui — J. Guillaume (double stars)

Gum — Gum catalog of emission nebulae

H

h — John Herschel (double stars)

H — Haro (planetary nebulae)

H — Harvard (open star clusters)

H — William Herschel (double stars)

HA — ? (for example: galaxy HA 85 in Telescopium, see chart 26 in Wil Tirion's Sky-Atlas 2000.0) (however, chart 435 in Uranometria 2000.0, Volume 2, 1987 edition, shows this object as ESO 183-G30)

Haf — Hans Haffner (open star clusters)

Hall — Asaph Hall (double stars)

HAT-P — HATNet Project, Hungarian Automated Telescope Network (search for extrasolar planets)

HATS — HATNet Project, southern hemisphere.

HaTr — Hartl-Tritton (planetary nebulae)

HaWe — Hartl-Weinberger (planetary nebulae)

Haufen — (for example: Haufen A in Cetus, at 1h 08.9m / -15° 25' (2000.0), which is, according to Sky Catalogue 2000.0, Volume 2, the same as Abell 151)

Hav/Moffat — Havlen-Moffat (open star clusters)

Hb — Hubble (planetary nebulae)

HBC — Herbig-Bell Catalogue (planetary nebulae)

HC — Howell-Crisp (planetary nebulae)

HCG — Hickson Compact Group

HCWils — Herbert Couper Wilson (double stars)

HD — Henry Draper Catalogue

HDE — Henry Draper Extension

HDEC — Henry Draper Extension Charts

HdO — Harvard Observatory USA, and stations elsewhere (double stars)

HDW — Hartl-Dengel-Weinberger (planetary nebulae)

Hdz — Harvard Zone Catalogues (double stars)

HE — Hamburg/ESO Survey

He — Henize (planetary nebulae)

Hen — Henize Catalogues of Hα-Emission Stars and Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds

Hf — Dorrit Hoffleit (planetary nebulae)

HFG — Heckathorn-Fesen-Gull (planetary nebulae)

HH — Herbig-Haro object

HIC — Hipparcos Input Catalogue

HIP — Hipparcos Catalogue

HIPASS — HI Parkes All-Sky Survey

Hld — Edward S. Holden (double stars)

Hlm — Edwin Holmes (double stars)

Hln — Francis "Frank" Holden (double stars)

HN — William Herschel's 1821 catalogue (double stars)

Ho — Helen Sawyer Hogg (open star clusters)

Ho — George W. Hough (double stars)

Holmberg — Erik Holmberg (dwarf irregular galaxies)

Hooke — Robert Hooke (double stars)

Howe — Herbert Alonzo Howe (double stars)

HP — Haute-Provence Observatory (globular star clusters) (for example: HP 1 in Ophiuchus, at 17:31.1 / -29°59')

HR — Bright Star Catalogue (Harvard Revised Catalogue)

Hrg — Lawrence Hargrave (double stars)

Hrr — Phil Harrington (telescopic asterisms)

HΣ — Hermann von Struve (double stars)

HS — Hamburg Survey (quasars and blue stars)

HSC — Hubble Source Catalog (lists of sources from the Hubble Space Telescope)

Hst — Charles S. Hastings (double stars)

Hu — Milton L. Humason (planetary nebulae)

Hu — William J. Hussey (double stars)

HuBi — Hu-Bibo (planetary nebulae) (J. Y. Hu and E. A. Bibo)

HuDo — Hu-Dong (planetary nebulae)

Hurt — Robert Hurt (for example: globular star cluster Hurt 2, aka 2MASS-GC02 in Sagittarius)

Huygens — Christiaan Huygens (double stars)

HV — Harvard Variable

HVGC — Hyper Velocity Globular Cluster (for example: HVGC-1 in the supergiant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in Virgo)

HVS — HyperVelocity Stars

HW — Hodge-Wright

Hynek — J. Allen Hynek (double stars)

Hz — Wulff-Dieter Heintz (double stars)

Hzg — Ejnar Hertzsprung (double stars)

I

I — Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (R.T.A. Innes, 1861–1933) (double stars)

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

IPHASX — INT/WFC Photometric Hα Survey extended object

IRAS — Infrared Astronomical Satellite

IRS — International Reference Star

IRSF — Infrared Survey Facility

Isk — Srbuhi "Sofik" Gevorg Iskudarian (open star clusters) (for example: Iskudarian 1 in the northern section of the rhombus β, γ, δ, and ζ Lyrae)

Isserstedt — Jörg Isserstedt (telescopic asterisms)

IsWe — Ishida-Weinberger (planetary nebulae)

Ivanov (open star clusters)

J

J — Robert Jonckheere's catalogue of double star observations (see [1] for an article about it)

Ja — Harold Jacoby (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jacoby 1 at 15:23 / +52°14' in Boötes)

JaFu — Jacoby-Fullton (planetary nebulae)

JAn — John August Anderson (double stars)

Jc — William Stephen Jacob (double stars)

Jef — Hamilton Moore Jeffers (double stars)

Jn — Rebecca Jones (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jones 1 at 23:36 / +30°28' in Pegasus)

JnEr — Jones-Emberson (planetary nebulae) (for example: Jones-Emberson 1 in Lynx, also known as the Headphone Nebula) (Rebecca Jones and Richard M. Emberson)

Jo — Jones (double stars)

Johansson — (open star clusters) (for example: Johansson 1 at 15:46:20 / -52:22:54 in Norma)

Joy — Alfred Harrison Joy (double stars)

JP11 – a 1978 catalog compiling photometric measurements in Harold Johnson's 11-color photometric system [2]

Jsp — Morris Ketchum Jessup (double stars)

Juchert — Matthias Juchert (open star clusters)

Juchert-Saloranta — Matthias Juchert and Jaakko Saloranta (telescopic asterisms)

JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula.