The
New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated as
NGC) is a well-known
catalogue of
deep-sky objects in
astronomy compiled by
John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888, as a new version of
John Herschel's
Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, known as the
NGC objects. It is one of the largest comprehensive catalogues, as it includes all types of deep space objects and is not confined to, for example,
galaxies. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC, known as the
Index Catalogues (abbreviated as
IC). The first was published in 1895 and contained 1,520 objects, while the second was published in 1908 and contained 3,866 objects, for a total of 5,386
IC objects.