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Millennium Galaxy Catalogue

(MGC)
(2000s catalog of 10,000 galaxies)

The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (MGC) is astronomical catalog of around 70,000 objects including 10,000 well-resolved galaxies. The catalog was produced by a 1999-2001 survey to identify galaxies within a 37-square-degree survey field, the imaging by the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) WFC (Wide Field Camera) using a B filter.

(survey,galaxies)
Further reading:
https://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/jliske/mgc/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MNRAS.344..307L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ASPC..374..481D/abstract
Coordinates:MGC
J122230+00
PrefixExample  
MGCMGC 27301 

Referenced by page:
redshift survey
Index