- Hans Battermann, 1860-1922 (double stars) BAT99 - The Fourth Catalogue of Population I Wolf Rayet stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud BAY — Uranometria (Bayer designation) BCVS — Bibliographic Catalogue of Variable Stars BD — Bonner Durchmusterung BDS — Burnham Double Star Catalogue BDS03 (I.R.) - (open star clusters) BDSB - (for example: open star cluster BDSB 96 at 7:05:18 / -12°19'44") BDSB03 (I.R.) - (open star clusters) Be - Bergvall (catalogue of some 400 interacting and distorted galaxies found on glass copies of the ESO Blue Survey) (source: A Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations, Volume 1 - H.C.Arp / B.F.Madore) Be — Berkeley (open star clusters) (104 items) Be - Bernes Bedin - Luigi Bedin (for example: dwarf spheroidal galaxy Bedin I in Pavo) Ben — Jack Bennett's catalogue of 152 deep-sky objects in the southern celestial hemisphere, all from the NGC or IC lists, except Ben 47 which is Melotte 105 in Carina, and Ben 72a which is Trumpler 23 in Norma Bergeron - Joe Bergeron (for example: Bergeron 1 in Cepheus, Sky & Telescope 12/'04, Page 86) BFS - Blitz-Fitch-Stark (for example: BFS 15 in Cepheus, Sky & Telescope 12/'04, page 87) BH - Van den Bergh / Hagen (open star clusters), see also VdB-Ha Bhas/Bha - T.P.Bhaskavan (double stars) Bi - Biurakan (open star clusters) Bica - (open star clusters) Bica / Schmitt (open star clusters) Big - Guillaume Bigourdan (double stars) Bird - F.Bird (double stars) Bl - Victor Manuel Blanco (for example: open star cluster Blanco 1 in Sculptor) Bloch/Blo - M. Bloch (double stars) Bo - Bochum (open star clusters) Bo - Bond (double stars) BoBn - Boeshaar-Bond (planetary nebulae) Bode - (telescopic asterisms) Boe - Boeger (double stars) Bogleiv (open star clusters) Bonatto (open star clusters) Boo - Samuel Latimer Boothroyd, 1874-1965 (double stars) Boy - Bowyer (double stars) BPI - (open star clusters) BPM / L — Bruce Proper Motion Survey (Luyten) BPMA - Bordeaux Catalogue (double stars) Bradley Brandt - (for example: open star cluster Brandt 1 at 8:09:32 / -47°20'12") ( = Pozzo 1) (very near Gamma Velorum, also known as 'Regor') Brand / Wouterloot (BW) (open star clusters) Brey - Breysacher, Large Magellanic Cloud Wolf Rayet stars BRI — Bj, R, I survey Briceno (open star clusters) Brosch - (open star clusters) Brso/Bso - Brisbane Observatory, Australia (double stars) Brt - S.G.Barton (double stars) Btz