page_title: Star catalogue
hierarchical_section_title: Star catalogue
caption_attribution_description: English: The en:Perseus (constellation) constellation from Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius. The view is mirrored following the tradition of celestial globes, showing the celestial sphere in a view from "outside" Русский: Лист W — Персей — Атласа звёздного неба Яна Гевелия, представляющего собой приложение к его книге «Prodromus Astronomiæ», опубликованной в 1690 году в Гданьске. Изображение — зеркальное, обычное для небесных глобусов, показывающее вид небесной сферы «извне».
context_page_description: A star catalogue or star catalog, is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, and this article covers only some of the more frequently quoted ones. Star catalogues were compiled by many different ancient people, including the Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, Persians, and Arabs. They were sometimes accompanied by a star chart for illustration. Most modern catalogues are available in electronic format and can be freely downloaded from space agencies' data centres. The largest is being compiled from the Gaia and thus far has over a billion stars.
  Completeness and accuracy are described by the weakest limiting magnitude V and the accuracy of the positions.
context_section_description: A star catalogue (Commonwealth English) or star catalog (American English), is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years, and this article covers only some of the more frequently quoted ones. Star catalogues were compiled by many different ancient people, including the Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese, Persians, and Arabs. They were sometimes accompanied by a star chart for illustration. Most modern catalogues are available in electronic format and can be freely downloaded from space agencies' data centres. The largest is being compiled from the Gaia (spacecraft) and thus far has over a billion stars.
  Completeness and accuracy are described by the weakest limiting magnitude V (largest number) and the accuracy of the positions.
caption: An illustration of the constellation Perseus (after Perseus from Greek mythology) from the star catalogue published by the German astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690
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