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{{Short description|Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies}}
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The '''Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies''' '''(MCG)'''<ref>
{{cite journal
 |last1=Vorontsov-Velyaminov |first1=B.
 |date=1974
 |title=Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies discriminated against
 |journal=The Observatory
 |volume=94 |pages=319
 |bibcode=1974Obs....94..319V
}}</ref> or '''Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik''', is a Russian catalogue of 30,642 [[Astronomy:Galaxy|galaxies]] compiled by Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov and V. P. Arkhipova. It is based on scrutiny of prints of the Palomar Sky Survey plates, and putatively complete to a [[Astronomy:Photographic magnitude|photographic magnitude]] of 15. Including galaxies to magnitude 16 would have resulted in an unmanageably large dataset. 

== Publication ==
The catalogue was published in five parts (chapters) between 1962 and 1974,<ref>{{cite book|author=Vorontsov-Velyaminov B.A. |author2=Krasnogorskaya A.A. |author3=Arkhipova V.P.|title=Morphological catalogue of galaxies|date=1962–1974|publisher=Moscow State University|location=Moscow|oclc=010670926}}</ref> the final chapter including a certain number of galaxies with a photographic magnitude above 15.<ref>[http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/galaxy-catalog/mcg.html MCG - Morphological Galaxy Catalog]. HEASARC</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:The loneliest of galaxies.jpg|[[Astronomy:MCG+01-02-015|MCG+01-02-015]]
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==References==
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[[Category:MCG objects| ]]
[[Category:Astronomical catalogues of galaxies]]



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