Ep. 657: Astronomical Naming Schemes
Astronomy Cast
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The NGC Numbers Have a Meaning.
The license plate that follows the catalog actually has meaning. NGC numbers don't so much have meaning. Those are just kind of the order they got listed and were discovered. But modern catalogs, for instance, if you're looking at a Bell Galaxy cluster, you have the Bell number which is the order in which it was found.
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