at 15:46:20 / -52:22:54) Joy - Alfred Harrison Joy (double stars) Jsp - Morris Ketchum Jessup (double stars) Juchert - (open star clusters) Juchert-Saloranta (telescopic asterisms) JW — Jones' & Walker's list of stars near the Orion Nebula. K K - Lubos Kohoutek (planetary nebulae) Ka - Valentina Karachentseva (dwarf galaxies) Karhula - (for example: open star cluster Karhula 1 near planetary nebula Messier 76 in Perseus) - K2 (Kepler extended mission) catalog KELT - Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (search for extrasolar planets) Kemble - Father Lucian Kemble (asterisms which could be observed through binoculars) Kepler — Kepler catalog Kes - Kesteven (supernova remnants). For example: Kesteven 79 K / Kg - Ivan R. King (open star clusters) KGZ — Catalogue de Zimmerman Kharchenko (for example: open star cluster Kharchenko 1 at 6:08:48 / +24:19:54) KIC — Kepler Input Catalog Kim - Dongwon Kim (for example: globular star cluster Kim 2 in Indus) KjPn - Kazaryan-Parsamyan (planetary nebulae) Klemola (for example: Klemola 44 galaxy cluster in Sculptor) (? - Arnold Richard Klemola, 1931-2019) KnFs - Kinman-Feast-Lasker (planetary nebulae) Knott / Kn - G.Knott (double stars) KOI — Kepler Object of Interest Kontizas (for example: Kontizas 953 in Dorado) (in the Large Magellanic Cloud) Koposov (open and globular star clusters) (for example: globular star clusters Koposov 1 and Koposov 2 in Virgo and Gemini) Kr - A.Kruger (double stars) (probably Karl Nikolaus Adalbert Krueger, 1832-1896) Kron - (globular star clusters) (for example: Kron 3 in Tucana) Kronberger - (for example: open star cluster Kronberger 1 in Auriga) Kru - E.C.Kruger (double stars) Ku - F.Kustner (double stars) KUG - Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies Kui - Gerard P. Kuiper, 1905-73 (double stars) KUV — Kiso observatory, UV-excess object L L / BPM — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten) La - Langley (double stars) Lac - N. de Lacaille, 1713-62 (double stars) Lac — Catalog of Nebulae of the Southern Sky (Lacaille) Lac I — Nebulae Lac II — Nebulous Star Clusters Lac III — Nebulous Stars Laevens - Benjamin P. M. Laevens (globular clusters and dwarf galaxies), for example: Laevens 1 in Crater, Laevens 2 in Triangulum (Triangulum II), Laevens 3 in Delphinus. Lal - F. de Lalande (double stars) Lam - J. von Lamont (double stars) λ (Lambda) - (mentioned in T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Volume 2: The Stars, pages 285-319: Index of Double Stars, Epoch 2000) Printed