It has been nearly 70 years since Dreyer completed his famous NGC and IC compendia of all the 13,000 non-stellar objects known in his time. Since then, the number of these objects known has increased by an order of magnitude, but this knowledge is scattered throughout the astronomical literature in such a way that it 1s nearly inaccessible from a practical standpoint to any individual.

The present work is an amalgamation of all known catalogs of non-stellar objects, in a uniform, easily readable form. It is Intended not only for astronomers, but also for scientists and engineers in other fields who have need for rapid access to this basic reference data. The types of objects included are galaxies (including both normal and all specialized types such as interacting, peculiar, dwarf, Seyfert, etc.), clusters of galaxies, nebulae of all kinds (planetary, reflection, emission, absorption, etc.), blue objects, groups of stars (open and globular clusters, associations, rings, chains, etc.), quasi-stellar objects, super-novae and others. The Information given for each object includes name, 1950.0 position, angular diameter in arcseconds, magnitude, description, and original reference. A portion of the work is shown in Figure 1. Approximately 185,000 listings appear in the full master 11st.