Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys

Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs and surveys1800 BC - Babylonian star catalog350 BC - Shi Shen's star catalog has almost 800 entries300 BC - star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria134 BC - Hipparchus makes a detailed star mapca. 140 - Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology840 - al-Farghani Compendium of the Science of the Stars963 - al-Sufi's star catalog Book of the Fixed Stars1252-1272 - Alphonsine tables recorded1395 - Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido star map created at the order of King Taejo 1437 - Publication of Ulugh Beg's Zij-i-Sultanilate 16th century - Tycho Brahe updates Ptolemy's Almagest1603 - Johann Bayer's Uranometria1678 - Edmund Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey1726 - Posthumous publication of John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica1771 - Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae1862 - Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the Bonner Durchmusterung catalog of stars north of declination -1°.1864 - John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters1887 - Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically1890 - John Dreyer publishes the New General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters1932 - Harlow Shapley and Adelaide Ames publish A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter than the Thirteenth Magnitude, later known as the Shapley-Ames Catalog1950-1957 - Completion of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) with the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope. Actual date quoted varies upon source.1962 - A.S. Bennett of the Cambridge Radio Astronomy Group publishes the Revised 3C Catalogue of 328 radio sources1965 - Gerry Neugebauer and Robert Leighton begin a 2.2 micrometre sky survey with a 1.6-meter telescope on Mount Wilson1982 - IRAS space observatory completes an all-sky mid-infrared survey1990 - Publication of APM Galaxy Survey of 2+ million galaxies, to study Large-scale structure of the cosmos1991 - ROSAT space observatory begins an all-sky X-ray survey1993 - Start of the 20 cm VLA FIRST survey1997 - Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) commences, first version of Hipparcos Catalogue published1998 - Sloan Digital Sky Survey commences2003 - 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey published; 2MASS completes
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