Morphological Catalogue Of Galaxies

Short description: Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies

The Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies (MCG)^[1] or Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik, is a Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies compiled by Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov and V. P. Arkhipova. It is based on scrutiny of prints of the Palomar Sky Survey plates, and putatively complete to a photographic magnitude of 15. Including galaxies to magnitude 16 would have resulted in an unmanageably large dataset.

Publication

The catalogue was published in five parts (chapters) between 1962 and 1974,^[2] the final chapter including a certain number of galaxies with a photographic magnitude above 15.^[3]

Gallery

MCG+01-02-015

References

↑ Vorontsov-Velyaminov, B. (1974). "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies discriminated against". The Observatory 94: 319. Bibcode: 1974Obs....94..319V.
↑ Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A.; Krasnogorskaya A.A.; Arkhipova V.P. (1962–1974). Morphological catalogue of galaxies. Moscow: Moscow State University. OCLC 010670926.
↑ MCG - Morphological Galaxy Catalog. HEASARC

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[1] Vorontsov-Velyaminov, B. (1974). "Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies discriminated against". The Observatory 94: 319. Bibcode: 1974Obs....94..319V.

[2] Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A.; Krasnogorskaya A.A.; Arkhipova V.P. (1962–1974). Morphological catalogue of galaxies. Moscow: Moscow State University. OCLC 010670926.

[3] MCG - Morphological Galaxy Catalog. HEASARC