They include Simbad (an object database), VizieR (an
astronomical catalog service), and Aladin (an excellent sky atlas).
The Rose Center team, in turn, working closely with NCSA, compiled the extensive set of databases--virtually every
astronomical catalog having 3-D positional information.
The first Palomar Sky Survey as an on-line database -- is this the
astronomical catalog of tomorrow?
The questionable transliteration of the name most
astronomical catalogs use is Dzimselejsvili, thus the clusters are abbreviated Dolidze-Dzim or simply DoDz.
Browse the image gallery or order a CD-ROM of
astronomical catalogs.
popular
astronomical catalogs built in, as well as many specialized
As comprehensive as the astronomical catalogs used by software are, no database is totally accurate or complete.
Amateurs need to keep the vagaries of astronomical catalogs in mind when using software.
My colleagues and I therefore developed our own system to offer several hundred
astronomical catalogs and more than 100,000 abstracts (summaries of research papers with overviews of the observations and results).
It began with online
astronomical catalogs and led through CD-ROMs, spreadsheets, downloads and uploads, paper and disk publishing, e-mail among new friends and old, online chats, CCDs, and image processing.
pt/pub2/Astronomy/Catalogs
Astronomical catalogs in electronic form
This has required much searching for information in many of the major
astronomical catalogs.
