Talk:Astronomical catalog

Astronomical catalog and Star catalogue

Can any one please tell me the difference between an Astronomical catalog and a Star catalogue? I found that most of Star catalogue includes astronomical objects other than stars also. I am confused with these terms.

Is Astronomical catalog is the best term to denote all the types of calatolgues in astronomy? Usage of the term star catalogue might have got historical reasons! --Shijualex (talk) 13:22, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

This idea was later discussed in more detail at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Astronomy#Delete Astronomical catalog?. That is where I made a counterproposal last week. A few days ago I added some bits to the text here, distinguishing stars from other cataloged objects. I have not gone ahead with my idea of purifying the list here, removing all star catalogs from the list of historical catalogs, and I no longer think that's a good idea. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:50, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

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Catalog(ue)

The page currently uses both catalog and catalogue. Most of the linked articles use catalogue, as do several names in the list of historically significant catalog(ue)s. So I'm intending to standardise the spelling in the article as catalogue, in the interests of making it consistent with both itself and the other articles, and then move the article to Astronomical catalogue.

The switch of spelling when following a link is almost as distracting as when it happens within the article, so I think consistency with the link destinations matters in this instance, not just consistency within the article itself. Musiconeologist (talk) 21:11, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

I think the spelling is now consistent throughout the article, but oddly I'm unable to move the article over its current redirect. ("Oddly" because I was able to do that for another article a week or so ago.) So everything is consistent but the title. Musiconeologist (talk) 21:58, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

OK, I think it's to do with the colossal number of incoming links and likely double redirects (I stopped looking through after the first 300 or 400). Musiconeologist (talk) 22:06, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Notable catalogues

I've changed the section heading to Some notable catalogues primarily because of the Patrick Moore one. It doesn't seem reasonable to call Caldwell "historically significant", but it does seem reasonable to include it in the list (notable for its use among amateur astronomers, assuming they do use it). Musiconeologist (talk) 20:47, 20 January 2025 (UTC)