The Catalogue of Principal Galaxies (PGC) is an astronomical catalogue published in 1989 that lists B1950 and J2000 equatorial coordinates and cross-identifications for 73,197 galaxies. The 40,932 coordinates have standard deviations smaller than 10″. A total of 131,601 names from the 38 most common sources are listed. Available mean data for each object are given:[1]
- 49,102 morphological descriptions,
- 52,954 apparent major and minor axis,
- 67,116 apparent magnitudes,
- 20,046 radial velocities and
- 24,361 position angles.
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- ^ Paturel, G.; Fouque, P.; Bottinelli, L.; Gouguenheim, L. (November 1989). "An extragalactic database. I - The Catalogue of Principal Galaxies". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series (ISSN 0365-0138) 80 (3): 299–315. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1989A%26AS...80..299P.
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