ca. 140 - Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology
840 - al-Farghani Compendium of the Science of the Stars
963 - al-Sufi's star catalog Book of the Fixed Stars
1862 - Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the Bonner Durchmusterung catalog of stars north of declination -1°.
1864 - John Herschel publishes the General Catalog of nebulae and star clusters
1887 - Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th mag photographically
1890 - John Dreyer publishes the New General Catalog of nebulae and star clusters
1932 - Harlow Shapley and Adelaide Ames publish A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude, later known as the Shapley-Ames Catalog
1956 - Completion of the Palomar sky survey with the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope
1962 - A.S. Bennett publishes the Revised 3C Catalog of 328 radio sources
1965 - Gerry Neugebauer and Robert Leighton begin a 2.2 micron sky survey with a 1.6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson
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