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rare designator prefixes

(designator prefixes generally used for only a few objects)

These are prefixes used in designators of objects (e.g., stars or galaxies) that are used for no more than a few objects of current interest. Some are from a small survey or catalog, such as produced by/for a single study and others are from catalogs no longer in general use. Or such a designator might be for objects discovered in a particular stellar cluster. Papers occasionally coin such a prefix for the discoveries they announce, or such a prefix might be devised by someone to indicate an earlier study mentioning the object. In some cases, a prefix is based upon the author's name.

Such a designator is likely the result of an attempt to reference the discoverer or an author who found it of interest or otherwise cataloged it. Such an object may have been of little or specialized interest, but more recently has generated wider research interest, the obscure name being revived and effectively publicized. For example, extra-solar planet searches watching many stars spot exoplanets around stars previously of little individual interest, some of these exoplanets making them targets for additional research.

(objects,designation) https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/names-of-deep-sky-objects/

Prefix	Example	Survey/Catalog
A1689	A1689-zD1	rare designator prefixes	lensed galaxy in Abell Catalog galaxy cluster 1689 field	http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2506
AB	AB 12	rare designator prefixes	authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979A%26A....75..243A/abstract
Abetti	Abetti 11	rare designator prefixes	discoverer
AC	AC 2	rare designator prefixes	or A.C., discoverer's initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1857MNRAS..17..257C/abstract
Ack	Ack 277.7-03.5	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991A%26AS...90...89A/abstract
Ag	Ag 5	rare designator prefixes	author initial, galaxy	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1971PASP...83..310A/abstract
AGC	AGC 1	rare designator prefixes	or A.G.C., discoverer's initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1862AN.....57..131B/abstract
AH03	AH03 J1725-34.4	rare designator prefixes	author's initials & year	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003stcl.book.....A/abstract
Al	AL 2-F	rare designator prefixes	author, PNe	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979Obs....99...83A/abstract
Anon	Anon 0043-37	rare designator prefixes	for "anonymous"
Antalova	Antalova 1	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970BAICz..21..331A/abstract
Arches	Arches-F6	rare designator prefixes	object within Arches star cluster	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arches_Cluster
AzTEC	AzTEC-3	rare designator prefixes	instrument	http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2779
BAT99	BAT99-98	rare designator prefixes	authors' initials & year	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999A%26AS..137..117B/abstract
Ben	Ben 1	rare designator prefixes	viewable galaxies	http://www.messier.seds.org/xtra/similar/bennett.html
BI	BI 253	rare designator prefixes	authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975A%26AS...21..109B/abstract
Biurakan	Biurakan 11	rare designator prefixes	stellar clusters, observatory
BPS	BPS CS 22898-0066	rare designator prefixes	authors	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985AJ.....90.2089B/abstract
BR	BR1202-0725 LAE	rare designator prefixes	in UK Schmidt Survey B and R plates	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996ApJ...468..121S/abstract
BRI	BRI 1202-0725	rare designator prefixes	in UK Schmidt Survey B, R, and I plates
BrsO	BrsO 14	rare designator prefixes	Brisbane Observatory double star	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brisbane#Astronomer
BSO	BSO 14	rare designator prefixes	Brisbane Observatory double star	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brisbane#Astronomer
BSO	BSO 1	rare designator prefixes	"blue stellar object" - early quasar detection	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1965ApJ...142..412S
C*	*C 3207**	rare designator prefixes	carbon-star catalog	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973PW%26SO...1.....S/abstract
Camelopardalis	Camelopardalis B	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Carina	Carina Dwarf	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Cas	Cas 1	rare designator prefixes	constellation abbreviation
Christie	Christie's Leo Cluster	rare designator prefixes	for discoverer "William H. Christie" of Mount Wilson Observatory	http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/124159/pdf
Ci	Ci 20 483	rare designator prefixes	Cincinnati Obs.	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1930PCinO..20....1P/abstract
CO	CO-0.40-0.22	rare designator prefixes	molecular cloud
CP	CP 1919	rare designator prefixes	"Cambridge pulsar"	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1976Ap%26SS..44..479T
CTA	CTA-102	rare designator prefixes	Caltech Radio Source list A	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1960PASP...72..237H
CTB	CTB 22	rare designator prefixes	Caltech Radio source list B	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1960PASP...72..331W/abstract
DM99	DM99 10	rare designator prefixes	authors	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999AAS...194.6915M/abstract
EBLM	EBLM J0555-57Ab	rare designator prefixes	project acronym	https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07521
EGG	EGG 30	rare designator prefixes	author	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990PASP..102..166E
EGGR	EGGR 131	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1965ApJ...141...83E
EGM	EGM 100	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976ApJS...30..351E/abstract
Elias	Elias 2-27	rare designator prefixes	Three papers by Elias	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978ApJ...223..859E
FCC	FCC 35	rare designator prefixes	Fornax cluster catalog	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989AJ.....98..367F/abstract
FM	FM1	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer's/Author's initials	https://aas.aanda.org/articles/aas/pdf/2000/14/ds1831.pdf
FS	FS 34	rare designator prefixes	"faint standard"	https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102287
Furuhjelm	Furuhjelm I 285	rare designator prefixes	aka FI-285, author	https://www.worldcat.org/title/recherches-sur-les-mouvements-propres-des-etoiles-dans-la-zone-photographique-de-helsingfors/oclc/2924170
G	G0.238-0.071	rare designator prefixes	maybe for "galactic coordinates"	http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2769
GAT	GAT 1373	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973AJ.....78..769G/abstract
GCGS	GCGS 1175	rare designator prefixes	"General Catalogue of Galactic S Stars"	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984PW%26SO...3....1S/abstract
GCIRS	GCIRS 13E	rare designator prefixes	"Galactic Center IR Source"	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1973ApJ...184..415R
GD	GD 356	rare designator prefixes	Giclas dwarf	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1965LowOB...6..155G
GR	GR 8	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer's/Author's initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1956AJ.....61...69R/abstract
Haro	Haro 29	rare designator prefixes	Author	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1953ApJ...117...73H
HB	HB 2124-4228	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1988MNRAS.234..177H
HFLS	HFLS3	rare designator prefixes	Herschel FLS field
HG	HG 7-206	rare designator prefixes	Giclas (author), Hyades Cluster	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962LowOB...5..257G/abstract
HLX	HLX-1	rare designator prefixes	"hyperluminous X-ray source"
Holmberg	Holmberg II	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1950MeLuS.128....5H
HSH	HSH95 31	rare designator prefixes	authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJ...448..179H/abstract
HV	HV 2112	rare designator prefixes	"Harvard Variable" star catalog	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1946RA......1..385M
HZ	HZ 9	rare designator prefixes	discoverers' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1947ApJ...105...85H/abstract
ISG	ISG 39	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials and G for galaxy	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1986A%26A...167...11I
KDG	KDG 52	rare designator prefixes	Author's initial and DG for "dwarf galaxy"	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968SoByu..39...61K/abstract
Kelu	Kelu-1	rare designator prefixes	name	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997ApJ...491L.107R/abstract
KH	KH 24D	rare designator prefixes	authors' initials	https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300426/fulltext/
KKH	KKH 060	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001A%26A...366..428K/abstract
KKR	KKR 25	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	https://aas.aanda.org/articles/aas/pdf/1999/05/ds1603.pdf
KPD	KPD 1930+2752	rare designator prefixes	Kitt Peak & author initial	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJS...61..569D/abstract
Kruger	Kruger 60	rare designator prefixes	(or Kr) discoverer	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1891AN....127..289B
KUI	KUI 75	rare designator prefixes	author: Kuiper, sometimes KPR
KUV	KUV 410-4	rare designator prefixes	Kondo (author), UV excess	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980AnTok..18...55N/abstract
L	L 143-23	rare designator prefixes	1940s Luyten surveys	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1939BHarO.911...24L
LAL	LAL 21185	rare designator prefixes	or "Lal", for "Lalande"	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Celeste_Francaise
Lalande	Lalande 21185	rare designator prefixes	author	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_Celeste_Francaise
LAWD	LAWD 13	rare designator prefixes	Luyten (author), white dwarf	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1949ApJ...109..528L
LB	LB 1479	rare designator prefixes	Luyten "blue"	https://books.google.com/books/about/A_search_for_faint_blue_stars_I_XXX.html?id=zIzvAAAAMAAJ
LEHPM	LEHPM 1902	rare designator prefixes	Liverpool-Edinburgh high PM	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003A%26A...397..575P/abstract
LGS	LGS 3	rare designator prefixes	"Local Group, Suspected"	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1979ApJ...232L..11T
LH	LH 10	rare designator prefixes	OB association, authors	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970AJ.....75..171L/abstract
LH	LH 10-3209	rare designator prefixes	star within LH association	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999AJ....118.1684W/abstract
LHO	LHO 110	rare designator prefixes	authors	https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5199
LMC AB	LMC AB 12	rare designator prefixes	LMC & authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979A%26A....75..243A/abstract
LSR	LSR J0822+1700	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207507
Luhman	Luhman 16	rare designator prefixes	(or LUH) discoverer
Maffei	Maffei 1	rare designator prefixes	Author name	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1968PASP...80..618M
Malin	Malin 1	rare designator prefixes	Discoverer	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987AJ.....94...23B/abstract
Markarian	Markarian 6	rare designator prefixes	stellar clusters, author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1951SoByu...9....1M/abstract
Mayall	Mayall II	rare designator prefixes	used in 1953 paper	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1953PASP...65...24M/abstract
MB	MB 3	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997AJ....113..981M/abstract
MCC	MCC 481	rare designator prefixes	observatory	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1943ApJ....97..381V/abstract
Melnick	Melnick 42	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985A%26A...153..235M/abstract
MGC	MGC1	rare designator prefixes	for "Martin Globular Cluster", Nicolas Martin, primary author	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607472
MlbO	MlbO 4	rare designator prefixes	Melbourne Obs. discovery
MLO	MLO 4	rare designator prefixes	Melbourne Obs. discovery
MR	MR 2251-178	rare designator prefixes	maybe for MIT Ricker?
MWC	MWC 349	rare designator prefixes	"Mount Wilson Catalog"	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1933ApJ....78...87M/abstract
NML	NML Cygni	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965ApJ...142..399N/abstract
Oo	Oo 2311	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1937AnLei..17A...1O/abstract
P	P871	rare designator prefixes	author initial	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993AJ....106..560P/abstract
Pismis	Pismis 24-17	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1959BOTT....2r..37P/abstract
Pr	Pr0201	rare designator prefixes	for open cluster Praesepe
PS	PS 130	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978AJ.....83.1090P
Q	Q0051-279	rare designator prefixes	for "quasar", referencing single survey	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993ApJS...87..451H
QQ	QQ2345+007	rare designator prefixes	double quasar	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1991AJ....101...66W
QQQ	QQQ J1432-0106	rare designator prefixes	triple quasar	http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0849
Renson	Renson 570	rare designator prefixes	"General catalogue of Ap and Am Stars"	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991A%26AS...89..429R/abstract
Reticulum	Reticulum II Dwarf	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Rob	Rob 270	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984AJ.....89.1229R/abstract
SAND	SAND364	rare designator prefixes	paper by "Sanders" re open cluster
SB	SB-WF 3572-1508	rare designator prefixes	Hubble Deep Field South SB field
Sextans	Sextans Dwarf Sph	rare designator prefixes	constellation name
Sher	Sher 25	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1965MNRAS.129..237S/abstract
SIPS	SIPS1259-4336	rare designator prefixes	catalog from 2MASS data	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412127
Sk	Sk -68 137	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970CoTol..89.....S/abstract
Sm	Sm 15	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhDT........10S/abstract
SMC	SMC 018136	rare designator prefixes	survey of galaxy	http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002ApJS..141...81M/abstract
Smethells	Smethells 15	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1974PhDT........10S/abstract
SO	SO025300.5+165258	rare designator prefixes	maybe "Skymorph object" or "stellar object"	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302206
SP77	SP77 46-44	rare designator prefixes	(or SP) authors, publication year	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977PW%26SO...2..105S/abstract
SR	SR 12	rare designator prefixes	paper by Struve & Rudkjøbing of stars in Ophiuchus and Scorpius clouds	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1949ApJ...109...92S/abstract
SS	SS 433	rare designator prefixes	author initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977ApJS...33..459S/abstract
Stein	Stein 2031	rare designator prefixes	double star discoverer	http://www.jdso.org/volume2/number4/Daley3.pdf
Steph	Steph 762	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986AJ.....91..144S/abstract
StHA	StHA 169	rare designator prefixes	author, H-alpha emitting stars	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...300..779S/abstract
STIS	STIS 123627+621755	rare designator prefixes	Hubble Space Telescope STIS instrument	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012037
StKM	StKM 1-762	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986AJ.....91..144S/abstract
Teide	Teide 1	rare designator prefixes	observatory	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998ApJ...499L..61M/abstract
Terzan	Terzan 5	rare designator prefixes	Series of papers re 12 globular clusters
Trumpler	Trumpler 27	rare designator prefixes	(or "Tr"), author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1930LicOB..14..154T/abstract
TS	TS 335	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974A%26A....36..155T
TVLM	TVLM 513-46546	rare designator prefixes	author, "very low mass"	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...414..279T/abstract
U	U 494	rare designator prefixes	abbreviated	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1972AJ.....77..486U
UBV	UBV 6193	rare designator prefixes	catalogs UBV data	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970pcmc.book.....B/abstract
ubvy98	ubvy98 100180540	rare designator prefixes	filters	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1998A%26AS..129..431H/abstract
UGP	UGP 619	rare designator prefixes	author initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972AJ.....77..486U/abstract
UMa	UMa I dSph	rare designator prefixes	constellation abbreviation: Ursa Major
UPG	UPG 494	rare designator prefixes	authors	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1972AJ.....77..486U
Var	Var 83	rare designator prefixes	M33 "variable"	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975ApJS...29..303V/abstract
VB	VB 8	rare designator prefixes	discoverer initials	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Biesbroeck%27s_star_catalog
VV2000c	VV2000c J195928.3+404402	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/w3browse/all/veroncat.html
VVO	VVO 230	rare designator prefixes	Van Vleck observatory	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1968AJ.....73..744G
Vys	Vys 3	rare designator prefixes	author, same as MCC	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1943ApJ....97..381V/abstract
Westerlund	Westerlund 1-26	rare designator prefixes	(or W26) cluster discoverer	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1961AJ.....66T..57W/abstract
Willman	Willman 1	rare designator prefixes	name of a discoverer	http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410416
WNC	WNC 4	rare designator prefixes	or Winnecke 4, discover	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnecke_Catalogue_of_Double_Stars
Wo	Wo 9540 C	rare designator prefixes	catalog author	https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/woolley.html
WOH	WHO G64	rare designator prefixes	authors' initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981A%26AS...43..267W/abstract
Wray	Wray 17-96	rare designator prefixes	author	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1966PhDT.........3W/abstract
WT	WT 469	rare designator prefixes	author initials	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994A%26AS..105..179W/abstract
YBP	YBP 1194	rare designator prefixes	Author initials	http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0004
YGKOW	YGKOW G1	rare designator prefixes	Authors' initials	http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980ApJ...241..507Y
z8	z8 GND 5296	rare designator prefixes	apparently for "z rounds to 8, GOODS North Deep"

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