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New General Catalogue
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| New General Catalogue (NGC) | |
 Spiral Galaxy NGC 3982 displays numerous spiral arms filled with bright stars, blue star clusters, and dark dust lanes. It spans about 30,000 light years, lies about 68 million light years from Earth and can be seen with a small telescope in the constellation of Ursa Major. |
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| Organization: | William Herschel, Dunsink Observatory, Royal Astronomical Society, revised by Sulentic and Tifft |
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| Data source: | William Herschel, Birr Castle telescope and Dunsink Observatory |
| Goals: | Survey of non-stellar objects |
| Data products: | NGC Catalogue |
| Website(s): | The Revised New General Catalogue |
The New General Catalogue (NGC) is the best-known catalogue of deep sky objects in amateur astronomy. It contains nearly 8,000 objects, known as the NGC objects. The NGC is one of the largest comprehensive catalogues, as it includes all types of deep sky objects (not specialised to just galaxies for instance).
The catalogue was compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from William Herschel, and then subsequently expanded with two Index Catalogues (IC I & IC II), adding nearly 5,000 objects.
Objects in the southern hemisphere sky are somewhat less thoroughly catalogued, but many were observed by John Herschel. The NGC contained many errors which have for the most part been eliminated by The NGC/IC Project www.ngcic.org.
The NGC was published in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society as "A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged." (Dreyer J. L. E., 1888, Mem. R. Astron. Soc., 49, 1-237).[1]
- List of NGC objects.
- General Catalogue
- Index Catalogue
- Revised New General Catalogue
- Revised Index Catalogue
- Category:NGC objects
- Category:IC objects
The NGC is referred to several times in various versions of Star Trek. See [1]
- ^ Dreyer, J. L. E. (1888). "A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars,being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged.". Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society 49: 1-237.
