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The ACT Reference Catalog The ACT Reference Catalog Home Page Contains 988,758 stars covering the entire sky
The CDS Service for astronomical Catalogues The Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS) collects and distributes astronomical data catalogues, related to observations of stars and galaxies, and other galactic and extragalactic objects
Deep Sky Collections and Catalogs Links to many catalogues
The Interactive NGC Catalog Online This is the interactive NGC (and IC, and Messier) catalog at SEDS, based on the famous NGC 2000.0 by R.W. Sinnott of Sky Publishing Corp., who also created the electronic version used by this online service
CDS Catalogues. Usual Names List of CDS catalogues
List of Common Deep Sky Catalogs Listing of the various more and less common catalogs of deep sky objects, together with abbrevations and a short description
The NGC/IC Project The NGC/IC Project is a collaborative effort between professional and amateur astronomers to correctly identify all of the original NGC and IC objects
Object Catalogue: Named Stars Alphabetized list of the major stars
PPM Star Catalog Converter Describes the use of PPM2BIN.EXE which can be used to extract stars from the PPM catalogue
SAO - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog Describes SAO catalogue
V/95 SKY2000 - Master Star Catalog (Myers+ 1997) Online access to SKY2000 file