Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

new general catalogue

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English

Syllables: new -gen-er-al -cat-a-logue
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

7

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A catalogue of deep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from 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).

Phrases

Messier number

Frequently Paired Words

Messier number NGC

Synonyms

Dreyer Catalogue

Questions

What does new general catalogue mean?: A catalogue of deep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from 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).

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