Template talk:Astronomical catalogs

Interacting galaxies
What if we have for example a pair of interacting galaxies (like here Arp 276), and each of them has it's own UGC (1936, 1937)? Danim2 (talk) 13:51, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Linking to disambiguation pages
This template is creating some links to disambiguation pages rather than to the intended articles. The problem is that links is that for certain Caldwell catalog "C##" leads to a dab page, and the article for the astronomical feature is actual located at the NGC number. I'd try to fix it myself, but I have no idea how the code for the template works. So for those of you who know how this works, would anyone be able to make the necessary fixes? --JamesAM (talk) 16:39, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Same for IC (eg. IC 4). I can fix this by substituting the string IC with something like IC 4 (galaxy)|IC in those cases, but it seems very messy and potentially unmaintainable.  Is there a better way?  Should the fix be here in the template or in the dab pages names themselves?  Lithopsian (talk) 14:28, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Talk about a necro post...
 * I think a better question is: why is IC 4 a DAB page? There's only 1 other entry, ICE 4... This could apply to some (maybe all) of the ICs, and we can try to hard-code something for the exceptions.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * IC4 itself should probably be a redirect. I considered just changing it and going home, but there remains a general problem in the template.  It assumes that every single number for its rather simple letter-codes is an article or redirect to that astronomical object.  That's an ambitious assumption, so there needs to be some way to disambiguate some of these cases.  Lithopsian (talk) 14:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I've turned it into an #R, along with its talk, to New General Catalogue.
 * It would be good to know where all of the ICX pages stand, in terms of DABs, #Rs, and articles. Category:IC objects only has 136 pages, so it shouldn't be that bad.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:11, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * 33 redirects. I don't think there are any other DABs atm.  Lithopsian (talk) 16:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Needed: consistent style & behavior as other navboxes
I like this template. I added the Abell catalog to it, and when I went to put it on a page I realized it looks...pretty messy. Basically, it just needs to be the same width as, and act like the other nav boxes (ie Galaxy). Otherwise it's kind of an eye sore. Fixed width is not cutting it. If someone does that, I'll put it everywhere :)

Aside: I took a look at the code, just for fun, and...dayum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom.Reding (talk • contribs) 06:03, 15 March 2012 (UTC)