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