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Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys

Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs and surveys

134 BC - Hipparchus makes a detailed star map[?]
1678 - Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars---first systematic southern sky survey
1771 - Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae
1864 - John Herschel publishes the General Catalog[?] of nebulae and star clusters
1890 - John Dreyer[?] publishes the New General Catalog of nebulae and star clusters
1956 - Completion of the Palomar sky survey[?] with the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope
1962 - A.S. Bennett[?] publishes the Revised 3C Catalog of 328 radio sources
1965 - Gerry Neugebauer[?] and Robert Leighton[?] begin a 2.2 micron sky survey with a 1.6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson
1993 - Start of the 20 cm VLA FIRST survey

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