Catalogue · 1908 CE

Index Catalogue (IC)

History of Astronomy

About the catalogue

The two Index Catalogues (1895 and 1908), compiled by J. L. E. Dreyer as supplements to the New General Catalogue, adding thousands of nebulae and clusters discovered with photography and larger telescopes.

Knowledge connections

Part ofModern Astronomy
Associated withDreyer's General Catalogues

Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

OpenNGCOpenNGC (M. Verga) — NGC/IC, Messier, and Caldwell catalogue data
Openly-licensed deep-sky catalogue: object types, positions, magnitudes, sizes, morphology, and cross-identifiers.