Boss General Catalogue

Not to be confused with Herschel's General Catalogue.

Boss General Catalogue (GC, sometimes General Catalogue) is an astronomical catalogue containing 33,342 stars.[1] It was compiled by Benjamin Boss (who lived from 1880 to 1970[2]) and published in the United States in 1936.[3] Its original name was General Catalogue of 33,342 Stars[4] and it superseded the previous Preliminary General Catalogue of 6,188 Stars for the Epoch 1900 published in 1910 by Benjamin's father Lewis Boss.[5]

  1. ^ "Boss General Catalogue". Oxford Reference.
  2. ^ Darling, David. "Astronomical catalogs, charts, and surveys". www.daviddarling.info. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  3. ^ Ridpath, Ian (2012-01-01), "Boss General Catalogue", A Dictionary of Astronomy, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-960905-5, retrieved 2023-07-28
  4. ^ Boss, B. (1995-10-01). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of 33342 stars (GC) (Boss 1937)". VizieR Online Data Catalog: I/113A. Bibcode:1995yCat.1113....0B.
  5. ^ Carnegie Institution of Washington.; Washington, Carnegie Institution of; Boss, Lewis; Observatory, Dudley (1910). Preliminary general catalogue of 6188 stars for the epoch 1900, including those visible to the naked eye and other well-determined stars. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie institution of Washington.