IC Catalog

5596 objects in the IC catalog

Index Catalogue

Author

John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852-1926)

Year

1895, 1908

Objects

5386

The Index Catalogue (IC) is an astronomical catalogue compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published in two parts in 1895 and 1908 as supplements to the New General Catalogue. The IC contains 5,386 objects that were discovered after the NGC was published, continuing the systematic cataloging of deep-sky objects.

Data Sources

OpenNGC Database - Modern digitized version with corrections and updates
Wikipedia - Index Catalogue - Historical background and detailed information

Objects are numbered IC 1 through IC 5386. The IC was created to supplement the NGC with newly discovered objects and corrections.

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39.9042

Longitude

116.4074

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