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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'New General Catalogue' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions New General Catalogue proper noun new, New general, General catalogue, Catalogue (astronomy): A catalogue of deep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by w:John Dreyer, J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from w:William Herschel, William Herschel. It contains nearly 8,000 objects, known as the NGC objects. Objects in the catalogue are numbered, and the letters NGC are prepended to these numbers, as in NGC 224 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or NGC 6205 (the globular cluster in Hercules).        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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