Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati EDCC$

Details on Acronym:   EDCC
  
EDCC   (Edinburgh-Durham Cluster Catalogue)
 Write:<<EDCC  NNN>>
 N:  769
Object:Cluster of G  (SIMBAD class: ClG = Cluster of Galaxies)
  Note:Supersedes the ACO catalogue as a data base for    statistical studies of cluster properties.    Table 3: N=737 among (Nos 1-769)    Table 4: N=32 among (Nos 30-760) misidentified as clusters.    Primary galaxy data set for the cluster survey is the    Edinburgh-Durham Southern Galaxy Catalogue EDSGC.
   Ref:=1992MNRAS.258....1L
     byLUMSDEN S.L.
, NICHOL R.C., COLLINS C.A., GUZZO L.
 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 258, 1-22 (1992)

    The Edinburgh-Durham southern galaxy catalogue. IV. The cluster
    catalogue.
oTables 3, 4: <EDCC NNN> (Nos 1-769)
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as VII/175
 Originof the Acronym: A = Assigned by the author(s)