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    NUM

    10AU 10-Micrometer Celestial Objects (Hall 1974)
    17V Counts and spectral indices at 8.44GHz (Windhorst+, 1993)
    1H The HEAO A-1 X-Ray Source Catalog (Wood+, 1984)
    1Jy Bright Extragalactic Radio Sources (1Jy) (Kuehr+1981)
    1RXH ROSAT HRI Pointed Observations (1RXH) (ROSAT Team, 1999)
    1RXP ROSAT Source Catalog (Voges+ 1994)
    1RXS ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue (1RXS) (Voges+ 1999)
    1WGA The WGACAT version of ROSAT sources (White+ 1995)
    2A Second Ariel X-Ray Catalogue (2A; Cooke+ 1978)
    2EG The second EGRET catalog (Thompson+ 1995)
    2EGS Supplement to Second EGRET Catalog)
    2E The 2E Catalogue (Harris+ 1994)
    2EUVE Second Extreme Ultra-6olet Explorer Catalog (2EUVE, 1996)
    2RE The 2RE Source Catalogue (Pye+ 1995)
    2EG The second EGRET catalog (Thompson+ 1995)
    2EGS Supplement to Second EGRET Catalog)
    2E The 2E Catalogue (Harris+ 1994)
    2W Westerbork Second Deep Survey (Katgert 1974)
    33P Radio sources in fields near G160.9+2.6 (HB9) (Leahy+, 1996)
    3A Ariel Catalogue of X-Ray Sources (3A; Warwick+ 1981)
    3CR 3CR Source Identifications (Spinrad 1985)
    3EG Third EGRET catalog (3EG) (Hartman+, 1999)
    3U Third UHURU X-Ray Catalog, Selected Data (3U; Giacconi+ 1974)
    4B The Fourth BATSE Burst Revised Catalog (Paciesas+ 1999)
    4C Fourth Cambridge Survey (4C) (Pilkington+ 1965; Gower+1967)
    4U Fourth UHURU X-Ray Catalogue (4U; Forman+ 1978)
    5C The 5C5 survey of radio sources. (Pearson, 1975)
    5C The 5C6 and 5C7 surveys of radio sources. (Pearson, 1978)
    5C12 5C12: survey near the North Galactic Pole (Benn+, 1982)
    5C13 The 5C13 deep radio survey (Benn+, 1995)
    5C14 5C14/5C15/5C16 Radio Survey at 408 and 1407 MHz (Benn+ 1991)
    5C15 5C14/5C15/5C16 Radio Survey at 408 and 1407 MHz (Benn+ 1991)
    5C16 5C14/5C15/5C16 Radio Survey at 408 and 1407 MHz (Benn+ 1991)
    5C 5C14/5C15/5C16 Radio Survey at 408 and 1407 MHz (Benn+ 1991)
    6C1 6C Survey of radio sources I. (Baldwin+ 1985)
    6C2 6C Survey of radio sources - 2. (Hales+ 1988)
    6C3 6C Survey of Radio Sources - 2I. (Hales+ 1990)
    6C4 6C Survey of radio sources - IV. (Hales+ 1991)
    6C5 6C Survey of Radio Sources - V. (Hales+ 1993)
    6C 6C Survey of radio sources I. (Baldwin+ 1985)
    6C 6C Survey of radio sources - 2. (Hales+ 1988)
    6C 6C Survey of Radio Sources - 2I. (Hales+ 1990)
    6C 6C Survey of radio sources - IV. (Hales+ 1991)
    6C 6C Survey of Radio Sources - V. (Hales+ 1993)
    6CMNORTH 53,522 4.85-GHz Sources (Becker+ 1990)
    7C 7C survey of radio sources (Visser+, 1995)
    7C 7C survey of radio sources at 151 MHz (McGilchrist+ 1990)
    7C 7C 151-MHz survey of region 9-16h 20-35deg (Waldram+ 1996)
    7C 7C: 151MHz survey of 3 regions (Pooley+, 1998)
    7C(G) 7C(G) 151MHz survey of the Galactic plane (Vessey+ 1998)
    87GB 87GB Catalog of radio sources (Gregory et al., 1991)
    8CRevised source list for the Rees 38-MHz survey (Hales+ 1995)

    A

    ABELL Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1989)
    AC:+01:+31 Astrographic Catalogue, +01 to +31 Degrees (Fresneau 1983)
    AC:-02:+04 Astrographic Catalogue (AC), -02/+04deg (Lacroute+ 1981)
    AC:-02:+31 Astrographic Catalogue, Zones -02 to +31, X,Y Data (AC; ARI 1989)
    AC:+05:+31 Astrographic Catalogue (AC), +05/+31deg (Lacroute+ 1981)
    AC2000 The AC2000 Catalogue (Urban+ 1997)
    AC2000 The AC 2000.2 Catalogue (Urban+ 2001)
    AC Astrographic Catalogue, Zones -02 to +31 degrees (Roeser 1990)
    AC Astrographic Catalogue, Zones -02 to +31, X,Y Data (AC; ARI 1989)
    AC Astrographic Catalogue (AC), +05/+31deg (Lacroute+ 1981)
    AC Astrographic Catalogue (AC), -02/+04deg (Lacroute+ 1981)
    ACO Rich Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1989)
    ACO Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974)
    ACR ACR catalog around Celestial Equator (Stone+, 1999)
    ACRS Astrographic Catalog Reference Stars (ACRS) (Corbin+ 1991)
    ACT The ACT Reference Catalog (Urban+ 1997)
    AGC Spectroscopy of edge-on spirals (Giovanelli+ 1997)
    AGK3 AGK3 Catalogue (Dieckvoss, Heckmann 1975)
    AGK3 AGK3 Catalogue by Right Ascension (Dieckvoss, Heckmann 1975)
    AGK3R AGK3R (Smith 1990)
    AGK3U AGK3U (Bucciarelli+ 1992)
    AKS95 UBVR photoelectric survey (Andruk+ 1995)
    Alger_AC Algiers AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1995)
    AM Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations (Arp+, 1987)
    APG Arp's Peculiar Galaxies (Webb 1996)
    APG Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (Arp 1966)
    APM-BGC The APM Bright Galaxy Catalogue (Loveday 1996)
    APS APS Catalog of Galaxies behind 6rgo (Hoffman+ 1996)
    Arp Arp's Peculiar Galaxies (Webb 1996)
    Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (Arp 1966)
    ASAS All Sky Automated Survey variable stars (Pojmamski 1998)
    ATESP ATESP radio survey. II. (Prandoni+, 2000)

    B

    B2 The Second Bologna Survey (Colla+ 1970-1974)
    Barnard Barnard's Catalogue of 349 Dark Objects in the Sky (Barnard 1927)
    Batten Eighth Orbital Elements of Spectroscopic Binaries (Batten+ 1989)
    BBXRT Calibrating Broad Band X-ray Telescope (Weaver+ 1995)
    BC Carbon stars from Baldone telescope (Alksne+ 1987)
    BCSP Stellar Polarization Bibliography (Belous, 1996)
    BCVS Bibliographic Cat of Variable Stars (BCVS), Part 1 (Huth,Wenzel 1992)
    BCVS Bibliographic Cat of Variable Stars (BCVS), Part 2 (Roessiger+ 1994)
    BD Southern Durchmusterung (Schoenfeld+ 1886)
    BD Bonner Durchmusterung (Argelander 1859-62)
    BESTARS Be Stars (Jaschek, Egret 1982)
    Bor_AC Bordeaux AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    BSP Spectrophotometric Scans (Breger 1976)

    C

    cabri Catalogue of the Brightest Stars (Ochsenbein+ 1988)
    CADARS Apparent Diameters and Absolute Rad2 of Stars (Fracassini+ 1988)
    Cape_AC Cape AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    CCDM CCDM (Components of Double and Multiple stars) (Dommanget+ 1994)
    CCDM Visual Double Stars in Hipparcos (Dommanget+, 2000)
    CD Cordoba Durchmusterung (Thome 1892-1932)
    CEDAG CEDAG Catalogue of Clusters of Galaxies (Fernandez+ 1984)
    CfA The CfA Redshift Catalogue, Version June 1995 (Huchra+ 1995)
    CfA2S The CfA2S catalog (Huchra+, 1999)
    CFRS The Canada-France Redshift Survey (CFRS) (Lilly+, 1995)
    CGCG Zwicky Galaxy Catalog (Zwicky+ 1968)
    CGCG Cross-Identifications in Abell and Zwicky clusters (Kalinkov+ 1998)
    CGCG Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG) (Zwicky, 1968)
    CGCG Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974)
    CGCS Cool Galactic Carbon Stars, 2nd Edition (Stephenson 1989)
    CGCCS General Catalog of galactic Carbon stars, 3d Ed. (Alksnis+ 2001)
    CGF The central Fornax Cluster. I. Galaxy photometry (Hilker+ 1999)
    CGF Central Fornax Cluster. II. Galaxy spectroscopy (Hilker+ 1999)
    CGSC Chinese Geodetical Stars Catalogue (CGSC; 1992)
    CGMW Galaxies Behind the Milky Way (Saito+ 1990-91; Roman+ 1996-98)
    CIO Catalog of Infrared observations, 3rd Edition (Gezari+ 1993)
    CIO Catalog of Infrared observations, Edition 3.5 (Gezari+ 1996)
    CIO Catalog of Infrared Observations, Edition 4 (CIO) (Gezari+ 1997)
    CIO Catalog of Infrared Observations, Edition 5 (CIO) (Gezari+ 1999)
    CJ1 First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. I. (Polatidis+ 1995)
    CMC4 Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 4 (CMC4, 1989)
    CMC5 Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 5 (CMC5, 1991)
    CMC6 Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 6 (CMC6, 1992)
    CMC7 Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 7 (CMC7, 1993)
    CMC8 Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 8 (CMC8, 1994)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian La Palma (Copenhagen & Royal Greenwich Obs 1986)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 4 (CMC4, 1989)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 5 (CMC5, 1991)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 6 (CMC6, 1992)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 7 (CMC7, 1993)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalog, Vol. 8 (CMC8, 1994)
    CMC Carlsberg Meridian Catalogs (CMC, 1999)
    CNOC2 The CNOC2 survey. I. (Yee+, 2000)
    CNS3 Nearby Stars, Preliminary 3rd Version (Gliese+ 1991)
    CoD Cordoba Durchmusterung (Thome 1892-1932)
    COU Catalogue of 2700 double stars (Couteau, 1995)
    CPASJ1 CPASJ1 catalogue (Lu+, 1996)
    CPASJ2 CPASJ2 catalogue (Lu+, 1994)
    CPASJ2 CPASJ2 catalogue (Manrique+ 1999)
    CPC2 Cape Photographic Catalogue 2 (Nicholson+ 1984)
    CPC2 Second Cape Photographic Catalogue (CPC2) (Zacharias+, 1999)
    CPD Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (Gill+ 1895-1900)
    CPG Isolated Pairs of Galaxies in the Northern Hem (Karachentsev 1972)
    CPIRSS Catalog of Positions of IR Stellar Sources (CPIRSS) (Hindsley+ 1994)
    CPSTARS General Catalogue of Ap and Am stars (Renson+ 1991)
    CS2 6 photometry in South Galactic Pole (Caldwell+ 1996)
    CS Stars of very low metal abundance (Beers+ 1992)
    CSS General Catalog of S Stars, second edition (Stephenson 1984)
    Cul Radio Sources observed with Culgoora Circular Array (Slee 1995)
    CVCAT Catalog and Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables (Downes+ 1997)
    CZC Proper Motions in Cape Zone Catalogue -40/-52 (Spencer Jones H.+ 1936)

    D

    DCld Catalogue of Southern Dark Clouds (Hartley+ 1986)
    DCMC DENIS Catalogue toward Magellanic Clouds (DCMC) (Cioni+ 2000)
    DENIS First DENIS I-band extragalactic catalog (Vauglin+ 1999)
    DGC Double Galaxies in SGP region (Zou+, 1989)
    DISCO Data Inventory of Space-Based Obs, Ver 1.1 (Brotzman+ 1987)
    DM Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (Gill+ 1895-1900)
    DM Cordoba Durchmusterung (Thome 1892-1932)
    DM Southern Durchmusterung (Schoenfeld+ 1886)
    DM Bonner Durchmusterung (Argelander 1859-62)
    DMS Deep Multicolor Survey. IV. (Osmer+ 1998)
    DN Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies (Duus, Newell 1977)
    DO Dearborn Catalogue of faint red stars (Lee+ 1947)
    DUGRS Durham/UKST Galaxy Redshift Survey (Ratcliffe+, 1998)
    DXRBS Deep X-Ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS). I. (Perlman+ 1998)

    E

    EDCC Edinburgh-Durham Southern Galaxy Cat. - Cluster Cat. (Lumsden+ 1992)
    EDS Einstein extended deep survey (Primini+, 1991)
    EIC Equatorial Infrared Catalog (Sweeney+ 1990)
    EMSS Einstein EMSS Survey (Gioia+ 1990, Stocke+ 1991)
    ENACS The ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey. 2. (Mazure+ 1996)
    ENACS The ESO Nearby Abell Cluster Survey I. (Katgert+, 1996)
    ENACS The ENACS Catalogue. V. (Katgert+ 1998)
    ERLcat Extragalactic Reference Link Catalog (ERLcat) (de Vegt+, 2001)
    ESO-LV Surface Photometry of ESO-Uppsala Galaxies (Lauberts+ 1989)
    ESO ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas (Lauberts 1982)
    ESP ESO Slice Project (Vettolani+ 1998)
    EUVE Second Extreme Ultra-6olet Explorer Catalog (2EUVE, 1996)
    EUVE First EUVE source catalogue (Bowyer+, 1994)
    EXMS EXMS catalog (Reynolds+ 1999)
    EXSS EINSTEIN extended source survey (EXSS) (Oppenheimer+ 1997)

    F

    FASTT SDSS new variables (Henden+ 1998)
    FAUST Far-UV Point Sources (Bowyer+ 1995)
    FBS First Byurakan Survey (FBS) (Markarian+, 1989)
    FBS First Byurakan Survey (FBS), 2nd Program (Abrahamian et al., 1990-1996)
    Fe/H Catalogue of [Fe/H] (Cayrel de Strobel+, 1997)
    FGC Revised Flat Galaxy Catalogue (RFGC) (Karachentsev+, 1999)
    FIRST the FIRST Survey (White+ 1997)
    FIRST The FIRST Survey, Version 1998 Feb (White+ 1998)
    FK4 Fourth Fundamental Cat and Suppl (FK4, FK4S) (Fricke+ 1963)
    FK5Ext The FK5 Extension of the FK4 System (Lattanzi+ 1993)
    FK5 Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) Part I (Fricke+, 1988)
    FK5 Fifth Fundamental Catalogue (FK5) - Extension (Fricke+ 1991)
    FOCAT FOCAT-S Catalogue (Bystrov+ 1994)
    FONAC The FON Astrographic Catalogue (FONAC) (Kislyuk+ 1999)

    G

    GB The Green Bank Survey (Maslowski+ 1972-87)
    GB1 The Green Bank Survey (Maslowski+ 1972-87)
    GB2 The Green Bank Survey (Maslowski+ 1972-87)
    GB3 The Green Bank Survey (Maslowski+ 1972-87)
    GB6 GB6 catalog of radio sources (Gregory+ 1996)
    GC General Catalogue of 33342 stars (GC) (Boss 1937)
    GCPA General Catalogue of Stars (GCPA; 1992)
    GCPA2 Second General Catalogue of Stars (GCPA2; Lu 1992)
    GCSS General Catalogue of S Stars (Stephenson 1976)
    GCTP4 Yale Trigonometric Parallaxes, Fourth Edition (van Altena+ 1995)
    GCTP Yale Trigonometric Parallaxes Preliminary (van Altena+ 1991)
    GCTP Yale Trigonometric Parallaxes, Fourth Edition (van Altena+ 1995)
    GCVS4 General Catalog of Variable Stars, 4th Ed. (GCVS4) (Kholopov+ 1988)
    GCVS General Catalog of Variable Stars, 4th Ed. (GCVS4) (Kholopov+ 1988)
    GCVS General Catalogue of Variable Stars V1.1, Vol. IV (Durle6ch+ 1996)
    GCVS Namelists of variable stars Nos.67-73 (Khopolov+, 1985-97)
    GCVS GCVS, Vol. V.: Extragalactic Variable Stars (Artyukhina+ 1996)
    GCVS Combined General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Kholopov+ 1995)
    GCVS New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars Supplement (Kazarovets+ 1998)
    G Lowell Proper Motion Survey - Southern Hemisphere (Giclas+ 1978)
    G Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Northern Stars (Giclas 1971)
    Giclas Lowell Proper Motion Survey - Southern Hemisphere (Giclas+ 1978)
    Giclas Lowell Proper Motion Survey 8991 Northern Stars (Giclas 1971)
    GJ Nearby Stars, Preliminary 3rd Version (Gliese+ 1991)
    Gliese Nearby Stars, Preliminary 3rd Version (Gliese+ 1991)
    GMP GMP catalogue: galaxies in the Coma cluster (Godwin+ 1983)
    GPC94 K-band survey in high galactic latitude (Glazebrook+ 1994)
    GPM1 GPM1 catalogue (Rybka+ 1997)
    GPN Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (Acker+, 1992)
    GP GMP catalogue: galaxies in the Coma cluster (Godwin+ 1983)
    Gra The UTR-2 Very Low-Frequency Sky Survey Data (Braude+ 1978-1982)
    GRB GRANAT/WATCH catalogue of gamma-ray bursts (Sazonov+ 1998)
    GSC The HST Guide Star Catalog (Lasker+ 1992)
    GSC-ACT The HST Guide Star Catalog, Version 1.3 (Lasker+ 1996-99)
    GSPC Guide Star Photometric Catalog, Updated Version 1 (Lasker+ 1988,1996)

    H

    HAEBE Member of Herbig Ae/Be stellar group (The+ 1994)
    HBC Emission-Line Stars of the Orion Population (Herbig+ 1988)
    HCG Hickson's Compact groups of Galaxies (Hickson+ 1982-1994)
    HDE Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension (Cannon+ 1918-1924; ADC 1989)
    HDE HDE Charts: positions, proper motions (Nesterov+ 1995)
    HD Henry Draper Catalogue and Extension (Cannon+ 1918-1924; ADC 1989)
    HH General Catalogue of Herbig-Haro Objects (Reipurth+, 1999)
    HIC Hipparcos Input Catalogue, Version 2 (Turon+ 1993)
    HIP The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)
    Hipparcos The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)
    HR Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991)
    HS The Hamburg Quasar Survey. III. (Hagen+ 1999)
    HUT The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) (GSFC, 1990-95)

    I

    ICRF New Reference Frame defined by Extragalacic Radio Source (IAU WG, 1995)
    ICRF VLBI International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) (Ma+, 1997)
    IC NGC 2000.0 (Sky Publishing, ed. Sinnott 1988)
    IDS Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) (Worley+ 1984)
    ILLSS U6LLSS Catalogue (Coluzzi 1996)
    IMPS IRAS Minor Planet Survey (IMPS) (Tedesco 1992)
    INCA Hipparcos Input Catalogue, Version 2 (Turon+ 1993)
    IPC Einstein IPC database ultrasoft survey (Thompson+ 1998)
    IRAM IRAM observations in pre-star forming regions (Falgarone+ 1998-2001)
    IRAS1.2Jy IRAS 1.2 Jy IRAS Redshift Survey (Strauss+ 1990,92,95)
    IRAS_Ast IRAS Asteroid and Comet Survey (Veeder+ 1986)
    IRAS_F IRAS Faint Source Catalog, |b| > 10, Version 2.0 (Moshir+ 1989)
    IRAS IRAS catalogue of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986)
    IRAS IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog (IPAC 1986)
    IRAS IRAS Faint Source Catalog, |b| > 10, Version 2.0 (Moshir+ 1989)
    IRAS_LRS IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (IRAS team, 1987)
    IRAS_PSC IRAS catalogue of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986)
    IRAS_SSC IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog (IPAC 1986)
    IRAS_SSS IRAS Small Scale Structure Catalog, Ver 1.00 (Helou+ 1985)
    IRAS IRAS Small Scale Structure Catalog, Ver 1.00 (Helou+ 1985)
    IRC Two-Micron Sky Survey (TMSS; Neugebauer, Leighton 1969)
    IRS International Reference Stars (IRS) (Corbin 1991)
    IUE Merged Log of IUE Observations (1978Jan - 1992Dec)

    J

    JP11 UBVRIJKLMNH Photoelectric Catalogue (Morel+ 1978)
    JVAS Interferometer phase calibration sources (Patnaik+ 1998)

    K

    KUG Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies (Takase+ 1984-1992)
    KUG18 Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-Excess Galaxies (Takase+ 1993)
    KW97 H-alpha Stars in Northern Milky Way (Kohoutek+ 1997)

    L

    Lanning A Finding List of Faint UV-Bright Stars (Lanning+, 2000)
    LBN Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (Lynds 1965)
    LBQS Large Bright Quasar Survey 6 (LBQS) (Hewett+, 1995)
    LBQS Large Bright Quasar Survey (LBQS) VII (Hewett+, 2001)
    LCDCS Las Campanas Distant Cluster Survey (LCDCS) (Gonzales+, 2001)
    LCRS Las Campanas Redshift Survey (Shectman+ 1996)
    LDN Catalogue of Southern Dark Clouds (Hartley+ 1986)
    LDN Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN) (Lynds 1962)
    LDS LDS Catalogue: Doubles with Common Proper Motion (Luyten 1940-87)
    LDSS LDSS Deep Redshift Survey (Colless+ 1990)
    LFT LFT Catalogue (Luyten, 1955)
    LHS LHS Catalogue, 2nd Edition (Luyten 1979)
    LOWVAR Low-frequency Variable Radio Sources (Mitchell+ 1993)
    LPZ94 The Zelenchuk Surveys (Amirkhanyan+, 1989)
    LRS IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (IRAS team, 1987)
    LS Luminous Stars in the Northern Milky Way (LS; Hardorp+ 1959-1965)
    LSBG LSBG catalogue (Morshidi-Esslinger+, 1999)
    LSS Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way (Stephenson+ 1971)
    LTPV Long-term photometry of Variables I. (Manfroid+ 1991)
    LTPV Long-term photometry of Variables 2 (Sterken+, 1993)
    LTPV Long-term photometry of Variables 2I (Manfroid+, 1995)
    LTPV Long-term photometry of Variables IV (Sterken+, 1995)

    M

    MACS The Magellanic Catalogue of Stars - MACS (Tucholke+ 1996)
    MA Emission-line stars and PNe in the SMC (Meyssonnier+ 1993)
    MAPS-PP MAPS-PP catalog of galaxies (Cabanela+, 1998)
    Markarian First Byurakan Survey (FBS) (Markarian+, 1989)
    MBG Montreal Blue Galaxy Survey (Coziol+ 1993)
    MCG MCG Vol.5 (Vorontsov-Velyaminov+, 1974)
    MCG Morphological Cat. of Gal. (MCG) (Vorontsov-Velyaminov+, 1962-1974)
    Me4 Fourth Melbourne General Catalogue (Me4; Melbourne Obs unpub.)
    MG The MIT-Green Bank 5GHz Survey (Bennett+, 1986-91)
    MG1 The MIT-Green Bank 5GHz Survey (Bennett+, 1986-91)
    MG2 The MIT-Green Bank 5GHz Survey (Bennett+, 1986-91)
    MG3 The MIT-Green Bank 5GHz Survey (Bennett+, 1986-91)
    MG4 The MIT-Green Bank 5GHz Survey (Bennett+, 1986-91)
    Miyun The Miyun 232 MHz survey. I (Zhang+, 1993)
    Miyun Miyun 232MHz survey (Zhang+ 1997)
    MLV92 BVRI CCD photometry in the field of M 31 (Magnier+ 1992)
    MRC Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources (Large+ 1991)
    Mrk First Byurakan Survey (FBS) (Markarian+, 1989)
    MSC MOST supernova remnant catalogue (MSC) (Whiteoak+ 1996)
    MSC Moscow Spectrophotometric Catalog (MSC) (Glushneva+ 1998)
    MSS Michigan Catalogue of HD stars, Vol.5 (Houk+, 1999)
    MSS Michigan Catalogue of HD stars, Vol.4 (Houk+, 1988)
    MSS Michigan catalogue for the HD stars, vol. 1 (Houk+, 1975)
    MSS Michigan Catalogue of HD stars, Vol.2 (Houk, 1978)
    MSS Michigan Catalogue of HD stars, Vol.3 (Houk, 1982)
    MSX MSX Infrared Catalog (Egan+ 1996)
    MSX5C MSX Infrared Point Source Catalog (Egan+ 1999)
    MWGC Globular Clusters in the Milky Way (Harris, 1997)

    N

    N30 Catalog of 5268 Standard Stars, Normal System N30 (Morgan 1952)
    N70E The N70E catalogue (Kolesnik, 1997)
    NBG Nearby Galaxies Catalogue (NBG) (Tully 1988)
    NGC NGC 2000.0 (Sky Publishing, ed. Sinnott 1988)
    NGC Revised New General Catalogue (Sulentic+, 1973)
    NGP9 Galaxy properties at NGP (Odewahn+ 1995)
    NGPFG Faint Galaxies at the North Galactic Pole (Infante+ 1995)
    NGP G5 and Later Stars in a North Galactic Pole Region (Upgren 1962)
    NLTT NLTT Catalogue (Luyten, 1979)
    NPM1 Lick Northern Proper Motion Program: NPM1 Catalog (Klemola+ 1987)
    NPM1 Lick Northern Proper Motion: NPM1 Ref. Galaxies (Klemola+ 1987)
    NSV New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars (KUKARKIN+, 1982)

    O

    OCl Open Cluster Data 5th Edition (Lynga 1987)
    OGLE-BWC OGLE General Catalog of Stars. I. (Szymanski+ 1996)
    OGLE OGLE General Catalog of Stars. I. (Szymanski+ 1996)
    OGLE OGLE Galactic Bulge periodic variables (Udalski+ 1996)
    OGLE Variable Stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy (Kaluzny+, 1995)
    OGLE OGLE RR Lyrae VI photometry (Udalski, 1998)
    OP Opacities from the Opacity Project (Seaton+, 1995)
    OSTARS Galactic O-Type Stars (Garmany, Conti, Chiosi 1982)
    Oxf1_AC Oxford 1 AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    Oxf2_AC Oxford 2 AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    Oxf_AC Oxford 1 AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    Oxf_AC Oxford 2 AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)

    P

    PACP4 Fourth Preliminary Catalogue of Stars (PACP4; Lu 1992)
    Par_AC Paris AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    PB Faint Blue Stars in high Galactic Latitudes 2I (Berger+ 1984)
    Penticton 408MHz Penticton observations of 51P + 52P (Green+, 19'95)
    Perth70 Perth 70: Positions of 24900 Stars (Hog+ 1976)
    Perth75 Perth 75 Catalogue (Nikoloff+ 1982)
    Perth83 Perth 83 Catalogue of 12263 Stars (Harwood 1990)
    Perth Perth 83 Catalogue of 12263 Stars (Harwood 1990)
    Perth Perth 70: Positions of 24900 Stars (Hog+ 1976)
    Perth Perth 75 Catalogue (Nikoloff+ 1982)
    PGC Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC) (Paturel+ 1989)
    PG Palomar-Green catalog UV-excess stellar objects (Green+ 1986)
    PHL Faint Blue Stars near the South Galactic Pole (Haro + 1962)
    PKS Parkes Radio Sources Catalogue (PKSCAT90) (Wright+ 1990)
    Pleiades Positions of 502 Stars in Pleiades Region (Eichhorn+ 1970)
    PLUTO95 Ephemerides of Pluto (PLUTO95) (Chapront+ 1995)
    PMC85 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1985 (Yoshizawa+ 1987)
    PMC86 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1986 (Yoshizawa+ 1989)
    PMC87 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1987 (Yoshizawa+ 1991)
    PMC88 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1988 (Yoshizawa+ 1992)
    PMC89 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1989 (Yoshizawa+ 1993)
    PMC93 Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 90-93 (Yoshizawa+ 1997)
    PMC Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1986 (Yoshizawa+ 1989)
    PMC Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1985 (Yoshizawa+ 1987)
    PMC Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1987 (Yoshizawa+ 1991)
    PMC Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1988 (Yoshizawa+ 1992)
    PMC Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 1989 (Yoshizawa+ 1993)
    PMC Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Catalog 90-93 (Yoshizawa+ 1997)
    PMFS Proper motions of fundamental stars (PMFS) (Gontcharov+, 2001)
    PMN Parkes-MIT-NRAO (PMN) Surveys (Griffith+ 1994)
    PMN The Parkes-MIT-NRAO 4.85GHz (PMN) Surveys (Griffith+ 1993-1996)
    PMSU Palomar/MSU nearby star spectroscopic survey (Hawley+ 1997)
    PPM Positions and Proper Motions - North (Roeser+, 1988)
    PPM Positions and Proper Motions - South (Bastian+ 1993)
    PPM Bright Stars Supplement, PPM and PPM South Star Cat (Bastian+ 1992)
    PPM Bright Stars Supplement to PPM (Bastian+ 1993)
    PPM The 90000 stars Supplement to the PPM Catalogue (Roeser+, 1994)
    PPS Groups of Galaxies in PPS (Trasarti-Battistoni 1998)
    PSCz PSCz catalog (Saunders+, 2000)
    PSPC Second ROSAT PSPC Catalog (ROSAT, 2000)
    PTGS QSOs Palomar Transit Grism Survey catalog (Schneider+ 1994)
    PVC96 Pulkovo Photographic Vertical Circle (PVC96) (Gontcharov+ 1997)

    Q

    QSO Revised and Updated Cat of QSOs (Hewitt, Burbidge 1993)

    R

    RASS-BSC ROSAT All-Sky Bright Source Catalogue (1RXS) (Voges+ 1999)
    RASS-BSC RASS AGN sample (Wei+, 1999)
    RATAN Spectral characteristics of RATAN (RC) Catalog (Bursov+ 1989)
    RATAN The Zelenchuk Surveys (Amirkhanyan+, 1989)
    RBS ROSAT Bright Survey (Fischer+, 1998-2000)
    RC RATAN-600 radio sources spectra (Bursov 1997)
    RC1 Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies (RC1; de Vaucouleurs+ 1964)
    RC2 RC2 Catalogue (de Vaucouleurs+ 1976)
    RC3 Third Reference Cat. of Bright Galaxies (RC3) (de Vaucouleurs+ 1991)
    REDCAT First DENIS I-band extragalactic catalog (Vauglin+ 1999)
    RFGC Revised Flat Galaxy Catalogue (RFGC) (Karachentsev+, 1999)
    RGO Parallaxes and Proper Motions near SGP (Murray+ 1986)
    RITTER Cataclysmic Binaries and LMXB Catalogue (Ritter+ 1998)
    RNGC Revised New General Catalogue (Sulentic+, 1973)
    RSSJ95 HIP and RSSJ95 position differences (Manrique+ 1998)

    S

    SanF_AC San Fernando AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1995)
    SAO SAO Star Catalog J2000 (SAO Staff 1966; USNO, ADC 1990)
    SD Southern Durchmusterung (Schoenfeld+ 1886)
    SGC Southern Galaxy Catalogue (SGC) (Corwin+ 1985)
    SHB Southern Hemisphere Catalogue of Bordeaux (Rousseau+ 1996)
    SKM Skymap Star Catalog - Version 3.7 (Slater+ 1992)
    SKY2000 SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog (Myers+ 1997)
    SKY2000 SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog, Version 2 (Sande+ 1998)
    SKY2000 SKY2000 Catalog, Version 3 (Myers+ 2000)
    SkyMap Skymap Star Catalog - Version 3.7 (Slater+ 1992)
    SMAC Stellar Mass Catalogue (Belikov 1995)
    SN Sternberg Supernova Catalogue (Tsvetkov+ 1998)
    SNRs A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (Green 1998)
    SNRs A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (Green 2001)
    SPF1 SPF1 Catalogue (Anguita+ 1975)
    SPF2 Second Cat of Fundamental Stars (SPF2) (Baturina+ 1986)
    SPF3 SPF3 Catalogue (Loyola+ 1974)
    SPF Second Cat of Fundamental Stars (SPF2)(Baturina+ 1986)
    SPF SPF3 Catalogue (Loyola+ 1974)
    SPF SPF1 Catalogue (Anguita+ 1975)
    SPM SPM Catalog 2.0 (Platais+ 1998)
    SRS Southern Reference Star Cat of 20488 Positions (SRS; Smith+ 1988)
    SS SS(77) Catalogue: new H-alpha em* in Milky Way (Stephenson+ 1977)
    SSRS The Southern Sky Redshift Survey (da Costa+ 1998)
    Str Southern Groups and Clusters of Galaxies (Duus, Newell 1977)

    T

    TD1 Catalogue of stellar UV fluxes (TD1) (Thompson+ 1978)
    TDSC Tycho Double Star Catalogue (TDSC) (Fabricius+ 2002)
    TIC Tycho Input Catalogue, Revised version (Egret+ 1992)
    TIC Preliminary list from Tycho observations (TIC data) (Halbwachs+ 1994)
    TMSS Two-Micron Sky Survey (TMSS; Neugebauer, Leighton 1969)
    Toul_AC Toulouse AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    Tr10Open cluster TR 10 (Stock, 1984)
    TRC The Tycho Reference Catalogue (Hog+ 1998)
    TXS Texas Survey of radio sources at 365MHz (Douglas+ 1996)
    TYC The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)

    U

    UBVRI_ST UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars, Celestial Equator (Landolt 1983)
    UCAC1 UCAC1 Catalogue (Zacharias+ 2000)
    Uccle_AC Uccle AC Zone Data Reduced to ACRS (Urban+ 1996)
    UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid list 1 (Zamorano+ 1994)
    UCM Photometry + morphology of UCM galaxies (Vitores+, 1996)
    UCM Long-slit spectroscopy of UCM galaxies (Gallego+ 1996)
    UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid list 2 (Zamorano+ 1996)
    UCM Photometry of UCM galaxies (Perez-Gonzalez+, 2000)
    UGC Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) (Nilson 1973)
    UIT The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) (1990-1995)
    USNO2 The USNO-A2.0 Catalogue (Monet+ 1998)
    UTR-2 The UTR-2 Very Low-Frequency Sky Survey Data (Braude+ 1978-1982)
    UVBS UV Bright Star Spectrophotometric Catalog (Jamar+, 1976)
    UVBS-Sup UV Bright-Star Spectrophotometric Supplement (Macau-Hercot+ 1978)
    uvby uvby-beta Catalogue, 1989 version (Hauck+ 1990)
    uvby uvby-beta Catalogue (Hauck+ 1997)
    UZCUpdated Zwicky catalog (UZC) (Falco+, 1999)

    V

    VMCC Extension of ICRF for selected areas down to V=15 (Camargo+ 2001)
    VPC Virgo Photometry Catalogue (VPC) (Young+ 1998)

    W

    WATCH WATCH Solar X-Ray Burst Catalogue (Crosby+ 1998)
    WD Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs (McCook+, 1987)
    WD Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarfs (McCook+, 1999)
    WDS_1996 The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0 (Worley+, 1996)
    WDS Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) (Worley+ 1984)
    WDS The Washington Visual Double Star Catalog, 1996.0 (Worley+, 1996)
    WEB WEB Catalog of Radial Velocities (Duflot+ 1995)
    WENSS Westerbork Northern Sky Survey I. (Rengelink+ 1997)
    WENSS The Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (Leiden, 1998)
    WFPDB Wide-Field Plate Database (Tsvetkov+ 1997)
    WGACAT The WGACAT version of ROSAT sources (White+ 1995)
    WGACAT The WGACAT version of ROSAT sources (White+ 2000)
    WOOLLEY Stars within 25 pc of the Sun (Woolley+ 1970)
    WR 7th Catalog of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars (van der Hucht, 2001)
    WSTB 1412 MHz catalogue of Westerbork survey. I. (Windhorst+, 1984)
    WSTB 1412 MHz catalogue of Westerbork survey. II (Windhorst+, 1984)
    WUPPE Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE, 1990-1995)

    Y

    YPAC Yunnan Observatory photoelectric astrolabe catalogue (Hu+ 1996)
    YZC Yale Zone Catalogues Integrated (Yale Univ 1939-1983; ADC 1989)

    Z

    zCat The CfA Redshift Catalogue, Version Nov. 1993 (Huchra+, 1993)
    zCat The CfA Redshift Catalogue, Version June 1995 (Huchra+ 1995)
    Zel The Zelenchuk Surveys (Amirkhanyan+, 1989)
    Zkh Nearest stars until 10pc (Zakhozhaj, 1979-1996)
    ZOA Penetrating the "zone of avoidance". I. (Weinberger+, 1995)
    ZOA Galaxies in the "zone of avoidance". III. (Lercher+, 1996)
    ZOAG ZOAG galaxies in 115{deg}<l<157{deg} (Weinberger+, 1999)
    Z Zwicky Galaxy Catalog (Zwicky+ 1968)
    ZwCl Abell and Zwicky Clusters of Galaxies (Abell+ 1974)



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