Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies

Short description: Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies

Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies

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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 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is an example of a void galaxy, and noted to be one of the loneliest galaxies spotted, with no other galaxy around 100 million light-years in all directions. mcg +07-07-015 or NGC1161 is a lenticular galaxy approximately 90 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Perseus. It was discovered, along with NGC 1160, by English astronomer William Herschel on October 7, 1784.

## References

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

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