Sears, for one, distributed its first general catalogue for home-delivery sales in 1894.
He published the parallaxes of 7,534 stars in his General Catalogue of Parallaxes (2nd ed., 1935).
Vega can also be specified as GC 25466, from Benjamin Boss's General Catalogue of 33,342 Stars (1937), or as ADS 11510, from Robert Grant Aitken's New General Catalogue of Double Stars (1932).
He published The Binary Stars (1918) and New General Catalogue of Double Stars Within 120° of the North Pole (1932).
Most of the brighter galaxies are still identified by their NGC or IC numbers according to their listing in the New General Catalogue or Index Catalogues.
The catalogs of the Herschels formed the basis for the great New General Catalogue (NGC) of J.L. Dreyer, published in 1888.
NGC catalog, in full 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, basic reference list of star clusters, nebulas, and galaxies.
A much more extensive tabulation in order of right ascension is the New General Catalogue (NGC; 1890), followed by the Index Catalogue (IC; 1895, 1908); examples are NGC 7009 or IC 1613.
The rheumy eyes that have seen stars — Herschel had already published his "General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars" — are the lens's target, yet, despite being viewed not through a telescope but from a few feet away, they are in a mist.
During the 1880s, this nebula was included in the New General Catalogue as NGC 4486.
The General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities lists a radial velocity of -11.4 km/s for this system.
