Barnard = Barnard Dark Nebulae = 巴納德黑暗星雲星表
BD = Bonner Durchmusterung = 波昂星表
BS = Bright Star Catalogue = 亮星星表
Caldwell = Caldwell Catalogue = 考威爾星表
CD = Cordoba Durchmusterung = 科多瓦星表
Collinder = Collinder Open Cluster Catalogue = 科林德疏散星團星表
CzeV = The Czech Variable Star Catalogue = 捷克變星星表
GCVS = General Catalogue of Variable Stars = 總變星星表
CGCG = Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies = 星系和星系團星表
GJ = Gliese Nearby Stars, Preliminary 3rd Version = 格利澤初步第三版近星星表
Gliese = Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars = 格利澤近星星表
H400-I = Herschel 400-I Catalogue = 赫歇爾 400-I 星表
H400-II = Herschel 400-II Catalogue = 赫歇爾 400-II 星表
Haf = Haffner Open Cluster Catalogue = 哈夫納疏散星團星表
HD = The Henry Draper Catalogue = 亨利·德雷伯星表
Hen = Hen Catalogue of the central stars of planetary nebulae (有待核實)
HR = Harvard Revised Bright Star Catalogue = 哈佛修訂亮星星表
IC = Index Catalogue = Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars = 星雲、星團索引星表 = 索引星表
King = King Open Cluster Catalogue = 金疏散星團星表
Madras = Madras General Catalogue = 馬德拉斯恆星總表
Messier = Messier Catalogue = 梅西耶星表
MCG = Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies = 星系形態星表
NGC = New General Catalogue = New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars = 星雲、星團新總星表
NSV = New Catalogue of Suspected Variable Stars = 新懷疑變星星表
Palomar = Palomar Globular Cluster = 帕洛馬球狀星團星表
PGC = Principal Galaxies Catalogue = 主要星系星表
RCW = Rodgers, Campbell & Whiteoak catalog of Hα-emission regions in the southern Milky Way = RCW 銀河系南部 Hα 發射區星表 = RCW星表
SAO = The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog = 史密松天體物理天文台星表
Sharpless = Sharpless Catalogue of HII Region (emission nebulae)= 沙普利斯 HII 區亮星雲星表
Trumpler = Trumpler Open Cluster = 川普勒散星團星表
UBAD = U.S. Naval Observatory Bright-Star Astrometric Database = 美國海軍天文台亮星位置測量數據庫
UCAC3 = The Third U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog = 美國海軍天文台CCD攝星鏡第三星表
UCAC4 = The Fourth U.S. Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog = 美國海軍天文台CCD攝星鏡第四星表
UGC = Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies = 烏普薩拉星系總星表
USNO = United States Naval Observatory Star Catalog = 美國海軍天文台星表
2C = Second Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources = 第二劍橋射電源星表
2M = Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Database = 重力透鏡類星體數據庫
2MASS = Two Micron All-Sky Survey = 二微米全天巡天星表
2MASX = Two Micron All-Sky Survey Extended Source Catalog = 二微米源全天巡天延展星表
3C = Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources = 第三劍橋射電源星表表
ALESS = ALMA survey of submillimeter galaxies = Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array survey of submillimeter galaxies = 阿塔卡馬大型毫米波/亞毫米波陣列射電望遠鏡亞毫米波星系表 = 阿爾馬亞毫米波星系表
APOGEE = Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment = 阿帕奇點天文台銀河演化實驗星表
AT = Astronomical Transient = 天文瞬變星表
ATLAS = Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System = 小行星地面撞擊最後警報系統星表
ATNF = Australia Telescope National Facility Pulsar Catalogue = 澳洲望遠鏡國家設施脈衝星星表
BLG =
BOSS = Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey = 重子振盪光譜巡天星表
HAT = Hungarian-made Automated Telescope = 匈牙利製造自動望遠鏡星表
HESS = High Energy Stereoscopic System Source Catalog = 高能立體系統源(研究宇宙伽馬射線的大氣切倫科夫望遠鏡)源星表
HH = Herbig-Haro object = 赫比格-哈羅天體星表
HI4PI = HI across the whole sky (the surface area of the full sphere corresponding to 4*PI steradian) = 中性氫全天巡天星表
HSC = Hyper Suprime-Cam = Hyper Subaru Prime Focus Camera emission-line object = 超級昴星團望遠鏡直接焦點相機發射線天體星表
IRS = International Reference Star = 國際參考星表
KELT = Kilo-Degree Extremely Little Telescope = 千度極小望遠鏡星表
KiDS = Kilo-Degree Survey = 千度巡天星表
LAGER = Lyman-Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization = 宇宙再電離時期的萊曼阿爾法星系表
LHS = Luyten half-second catalog = 魯坦半秒星表
LP = Luyten-Palomar Survey = 魯坦-帕洛瑪巡天星表
LTT = Luyten Two Tenths catalog = 魯坦十分之二星表
Luhman = brown dwarfs discovered by Kevin Luhman = 凱文·盧曼(Kevin Luhman)發現的棕矮星星表
MELANGE =
MDW = Mittelman Dennis Walker Sky Surey = 米特曼-丹尼斯-沃克巡天星表
MOA = Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics = (新西蘭) 天體物理學微重力透鏡觀測星表
NGTS = Next Generation Transit Survey = 次世代凌日法巡天星表
PDS = Protoplanets Disk Sculpting = 原行星盤雕刻星表
PHL =
PSO = PanSTARRS Object = Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System Object = 全景巡天望遠鏡和快速回應系統天體星表 = 泛星計劃天體星表 = 泛星天體星表
PSR = Pulsating Source of Radio = 射電脈動源星表
PTF = Palomar Transient Factory = 帕洛馬瞬變工廠星表
SDSS = Sloan Digital Sky Survey = 史隆數碼化巡天星表
SEGUE = Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration = 銀河系理解和探索史隆數碼化巡天擴展星表
SGR = Soft Gamma Repeater = 軟γ射線重複爆發源星表
SMAC = Stellar Mass Catalogue = 恆星質量目錄
SMAC = Streaming motions of galaxy clusters = 星系團的流動運動星表
SNO = SPECULOOS Northern Observatory =
SPECULOOS = Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars = 尋找使超冷恆星黯然失色的宜居行星
SPT = South Pole Telescope = 南極望遠鏡星表
SSO = SPECULOOS Southern Observatory =
SWASP = Super Wide Angle Search for Planets = 超廣角尋找行星星表
TRAPPIST = TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope = 凌日系外行星及原行星小望遠鏡星表
TVLM = Tinney's Very Low Mass Catalogue = 廷尼超低質量天體星表
VVV = VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey = Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy Variables in the Via Lactea survey = 可見光和紅外測量望遠鏡 Via Lactea 巡天星表(VIST是歐洲南方天文台4.1米可見光和紅外測量望遠鏡)
VVV-WIT = VVV What Is This = 可見光和紅外測量望遠鏡 Via Lactea 巡天中,這是什麼天體列表
VVVX = VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey and extended version = 可見光和紅外測量望遠鏡 Via Lactea 巡天延展星表
WASP = Wide Angle Search for Planets = 廣角尋找行星星表
YSES = Young suns Exoplanet Survey = 年輕太陽系外行星巡天星表
YSO = Young Stellar Objects = 年輕恆星物體星表
4U = Fourth Uhuru Catalog = X射線探測衛星第四星表 (Uhuru 烏呼魯衛星,原名「X射線探測衛星」)
eFEDS = eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey = extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array Final Equatorial Depth Survey = 擴展倫琴測量成像望遠鏡陣列赤道最終深度巡天星表(暱稱:愛神赤道最終深度巡天星表)
EPIC = Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog = 黃道平面輸入星表(刻卜勒太空望遠鏡延展任務恆星和行星數據庫)
Gaia EDR3 = Gaia Early Data Release 3 = 蓋亞第三批早期發佈數據
GLASS = Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space = 太空重力透鏡放大巡天星表
GLASS-JWST = James Webb Space Telescope Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space = 韋伯太空望遠鏡發現的太空重力透鏡放大巡天星表
GOODS North = Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey North = 大天文台(指:各大太空望遠鏡)深空天體起源北天巡天星表
GOODS South = Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey South = 大天文台(指:各大太空望遠鏡)深空天體起源南天巡天星表
GSC = Guide Star Catalog = Hubble Space Telescope, Guide Catalog = 哈勃太空望遠鏡導星星表 = 哈勃導星星表
HDF = Hubble Deep Field = 哈勃深空天體星表
HIP = Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission = 依巴谷衛星星表
HSC = Hubble Source Catalog = 哈勃來源星表