星云目录

星云目录（CN，Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars）是威廉·赫歇尔在他的妹妹卡洛琳协助下编撰而成的星云目录，在1786年首度出版。后来，由他的儿子约翰·赫歇尔的扩充成GC星表（星云和星团总表，General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters and Clusters of Stars）。CN和GC是J. L. E. Dreyer所编辑，目前仍被天文学家广泛使用的星云和星团新总表（NGC）的前身^[1]。

历史

星云目录于1786年由威廉·赫歇尔首度在自然科学会报发表^[2]。在1789年，他增入了1,000个天体^[3]，在1802年再加入500个天体^[4]，使天体总数达到2,500个。

在1864年，CN由他的儿子约翰·赫歇尔扩充成GC星表^[5]。GC星表包含5,079天体。稍后，更完整刊登出来的谥作，称为General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars，包含10,300个多星和双星天体^{[来源请求]}。

在1878年，John Louis Emil Dreyer出版了增补的General Catalogue.^[6]。在1886年，他建议建立GC的第二个增补版，但英国皇家天文学会要求Dreyer编辑一个新的版本，这导致1888年NGC天体表的出版^[7]，之后在1895年两次扩充的IC星表^[8] and 1908.^[9]。

相关条目

• 赫歇尔目录（CN）
• 星云和星团总表（GC）
• 星云和星团新总表（NGC）
• 索引星表（IC）
• 修订星云和星团新总表（RNGC）
• 修订索引星表
• Category:NGC天体
• Category:IC天体

参考资料

1. Hellemans, Alexander; Bryan Bunch (1988). The Timetables of Science. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster. pp. 236. ISBN 0671621300.
2. Herschel, W. Catalogue of One Thousand new Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1786, 76: 457–499. Bibcode:1786RSPT...76..457H. doi:10.1098/rstl.1786.0027.
3. Herschel, W. Catalogue of a second Thousand of new Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; with a few introductory Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1789, 79: 212–255. Bibcode:1789RSPT...79..212H. doi:10.1098/rstl.1789.0021.
4. Herschel, W. Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1802, 92: 477–528. Bibcode:1802RSPT...92..477H. doi:10.1098/rstl.1802.0021.
5. Herschel, J. F. W. Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 1864, 154: 1–137. Bibcode:1864RSPT..154....1H. doi:10.1098/rstl.1864.0001.
6. Dreyer, J. L. E. A Supplement to Sir John Herschel's "General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 1878, 26: 391–426. Bibcode:1878RIATr..26..381D. JSTOR 30079091.
7. Dreyer, J. L. E. 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 (PDF). Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 1888, 49: 1–237. Bibcode:1888MmRAS..49....1D.
8. Dreyer, J. L. E. Index Catalogue of Nebulae found in the years 1888 to 1894, with Notes and Corrections to the New General Catalogue. Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 1895, 51: 185–228. Bibcode:1895MmRAS..51..185D.
9. Dreyer, J. L. E. Second Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; containing objects found in the years 1895 to 1907, with Notes and Corrections to the New General Catalogue and to the Index Catalogue for 1888–94 (PDF). Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 1908, 59: 105–198. Bibcode:1908MmRAS..59..105D.

外部链接

• William Herschel's catalog of Deep Sky objects （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• A general catalogue of nebulæ and clusters of stars, arranged in order of right ascension and reduced to the common epoch 1860.0 (with precessions computed for the epoch 1880.0) (1864). archive.org. 外部链接存在于|work= (帮助)