Home › Entities › astronomical_catalogue › New General Catalogue

New General Catalogue

astronomical catalogue of deep sky objects
Place astronomical_catalogue Q14534
New General Catalogue
Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

New General Catalogue

Summary

New General Catalogue is an astronomical catalogue[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of astronomical_catalogue entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (400 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • New General Catalogue authored John Louis Emil Dreyer[3].
  • New General Catalogue's image is recorded as NewGeneralCatalogueOriginal NGC1-33.jpg[4].
  • New General Catalogue's instance of is recorded as astronomical catalogue[5].
  • New General Catalogue's item operated is recorded as William Herschel[6].
  • New General Catalogue's item operated is recorded as John Frederick William Herschel[7].
  • New General Catalogue's item operated is recorded as James Dunlop[8].
  • New General Catalogue's genre is recorded as catalogue[9].
  • New General Catalogue's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 179797444[10].
  • New General Catalogue's GND ID is recorded as 7742697-6[11].
  • New General Catalogue's Commons category is recorded as NGC objects[12].
  • New General Catalogue's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • New General Catalogue's publication date is recorded as +1888-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • New General Catalogue's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fmyx[15].
  • New General Catalogue's official website is recorded as http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=VII%2F1B[16].
  • New General Catalogue's topic's main category is recorded as Category:New General Catalogue[17].
  • New General Catalogue's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/NGC-catalog[18].
  • New General Catalogue's collection or exhibition size is recorded as {'unit': 'Q6999', 'amount': '+7840'}[19].
  • New General Catalogue's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'New General Catalogue'}[20].
  • New General Catalogue's main Wikidata property is recorded as P3208[21].
  • New General Catalogue's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'NGC'}[22].
  • New General Catalogue's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'NGC'}[23].
  • New General Catalogue's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'bn', 'text': 'এনজিসি'}[24].
  • New General Catalogue's NE.se ID is recorded as ngc[25].
  • New General Catalogue's Quora topic ID is recorded as NGC-1[26].
  • New General Catalogue's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as New_General_Catalogue[27].

Body

Designation and Status

New General Catalogue's instance of is recorded as astronomical catalogue[5].

Why It Matters

New General Catalogue ranks in the top 5% of astronomical_catalogue entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (400 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

James Dunlop John Frederick William Herschel John Louis Emil Dreyer William Herschel

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). New General Catalogue. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/new-general-catalogue
MLA “New General Catalogue.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/new-general-catalogue.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_new-general-catalogue_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{New General Catalogue}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/new-general-catalogue}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): New General Catalogue — https://4ort.xyz/entity/new-general-catalogue (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/new-general-catalogue · Last refreshed: