Editing Stellar designations and names (section)

===Full-sky catalogues===
Full-sky [[star catalogues]] detach the star designation from the star's constellation and aim at enumerating all stars with apparent magnitude greater than a given cut-off value.

*The ''[[Histoire céleste française]]'' (1801) enumerated  47,390 stars to magnitude 9.
*The ''[[Bonner Durchmusterung]]'' (1859) was the most complete star catalogue compiled without the aid of photography. It listed a total of 320,000 northern stars, expanded by the ''Cordoba Durchmusterung'' (1892) and the ''Cape Photographic Durchmusterung'' (1896).
*The ''[[Henry Draper Catalogue]]'' (1924) listed 225,300 stars to magnitude 10, extended to a total of 359,083 in 1949. The HD numbers remain in widespread use for stars that do not have a Flamsteed or Bayer designation.
*The ''[[Bright Star Catalogue]]'' of 1930 listed all stars brighter than magnitude 6. It was supplemented to include stars down to magnitude 7.1 in 1983.
*The ''Catalogue astrographique'' was compiled between 1891 and 1950 with the aim of listing all stars to magnitude 11, resulting in a list of 4.6 million stars. It is under continued development, now under custody of the [[U.S. Naval Observatory]].
*The USNO-B1.0 catalogue contains over a billion objects, and is also under continued development at the  U.S. Naval Observatory.
*The online ''[[Guide Star Catalog|Guide Star Catalog II]]'' (2008) contains 945 million stars to magnitude 21.