LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS QB CLASSIFICATION
Updated through 2006: list 51, Dec. 20
of
LC Classification Additions & Changes
Prepared by
Space Telescope
Science Institute
library@stsci.edu
1
Periodicals, societies, congresses, serial
publications
Museums.
Exhibitions
2.A1 General works
2.A2-Z By region or country, A-Z
Subarrange
each country by Table Q5
3
Collected works (nonserial)
Observations
Including serial collections
issued by individual
observatories. For annual reports, see QB82.A+
4.A-Z By name of issuing observatory, A-Z
4.9.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
6
Star catalogs
Including
zone observations, etc.
For catalogs of double stars,
multiple stars,
binary
systems see QB821
For catalogs of variable stars
see QB835
Ephemerides
For ephemerides
of individual planets, see
QB611,
QB621, etc.
For ephemerides
of planets collectively see
QB603.E6
7
Early through 1800
1801-
8.A-Z Nautical and air (or aeronautical)
almanacs.
By country, A-Z
9
Other yearbooks
General tables
11
Early through 1800
12
1801-
14
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Communication in astronomy
14.2
General works
14.25
Information services
14.3
Computer network resources
Including the Internet
14.5
Philosophy
History
15
General works
Ancient
16
General works
Cf. CE21+ Ancient chronology
GN799.A8, Astronomy
(Prehistoric archaeology)
17
Chinese
18
Hindu
19
Assyro-Babylonian, etc.
Jewish, see QB34
20
Egyptian
21
Greek
22
Roman
22.2
Celtic
Medieval
Including Arabic astronomy
23
General works
Astrology
25 History
Cf. BF1671, Occult sciences
26 Medieval works
Cf. BF1680+, Occult
sciences
Modern astrology, see BF1651+
Modern
28
General works
29
Renaissance through 1700
31 18th century
32
19th-20th centuries
33.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
34
Jewish astronomy
Maori astronomy, see DU423.A85
34.5
Women in astronomy. Women
astronomers
Biography
35
Collective
36.A-Z Individual, A-Z
e.g.
36.B8 Brahe
36.C8 Copernicus
36.G2 Galileo
40
Directories
41
Early works through 1700
Cf. GA6, Cosmography
Cf. VK551, Navigation (Early
works)
General works, treatises, and
advanced textbooks
Cf. QB500, Descriptive
astronomy
42
1701-1800
43
1801-1969
43.2
1970-2000
43.3
2001-
Popular works
44
Through 1969
44.2
1970-2000
44.3
2001-
Elementary textbooks
45
To 2000
45.2
2001-
46
Juvenile works
Cf. QB63, Stargazers' guides
47
Special aspects of the subject as a whole
51
Addresses, essays, lectures
51.3.A-Z Special topics, A-Z
51.3.E43 Electronic data processing
51.3.I45 Imaging systems
51.3.L53 Light pollution
Statistical methods,
see QB149
51.5
Astronomy as a profession. Vocational guidance
52
Miscellany and curiosa
54
Extraterrestrial life
Cf. CB156, Terrestrial evidence of
interplanetary
voyages
(55) Astronomical myths, legends, and
superstitions
see
GR625
Study and teaching. Research
61
General works
62
Outlines, syllabi
62.5
Problems, exercises, examinations
62.7
Laboratory manuals
63
Stargazers' guides
64
Observers' handbooks
Cf. TL796.8, Artificial
satellites
65
Atlases and charts
66 Astronomical globes
Cf. GA12, Manual for globes
67
Miscellaneous models
68
Pictorial works and atlases
Planetariums
Including orreries
70
General works
71.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
Under each country:
.x General works
.x2A-.x2Z
Individual planetariums. By city,
A-Z
Observatories
Cf. QB479.A2+ Radio
observatories
Cf. QB500.267+ Orbiting
astronomical observatories
81
General works
82.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
Under each country:
.x General works
.x2A-.x2Z
Individual observatories. By
place, A-Z
Including description,
history,
annual
reports, individual
named
telescopes, etc.
84
Observatory buildings
Including domes, piers, rising
floors, chairs
Astronomical instruments
Including description, theory,
adjustment
84.5
Periodicals, societies, congresses, serial publications
Biography of instrument makers
84.7
Collective
84.75.A-Z Individual, A-Z
85
Early. Astrolabes,
etc.
Including descriptions of
early observatories
Modern
85.8
History
86
General works, treatises, and textbooks
86.4
Catalogs
Telescopes. Objectives, Mirrors
Including homemade
telescopes, optics,
accessories
For individual named telescopes in observatories
see
QB82.A+
Cf. QB479.2, Radio telescopes
Cf. QB500.268, Hubble Space
Telescope
88
General works
90
Large astronomical telescopes
97
Equatorial mountings. Driving clocks.
Siderostats. Heliostats. Coelostats
101 Meridian instruments
Including transit circle,
zenith telescope,
visual
and photographic
103 Extra-meridian instruments
Including altazimuth,
almucantar, transit
out
of meridian, vertical circle
105 Portable instruments
Including transit, solar
compass
Cf. VK583, Sextant
107 Clocks. Chronometers. Chronographs
For use of chronographs in
ballistics,
see
UF830.C4
111 Eyepieces
113 Micrometers
115 Levels. Artificial horizons. Illumination,
etc.
117 Optical interferometers
Astronomical photography
121 General works
121.5 Equipment and supplies
125 Television in astronomy
126 Video astronomy
Electronics in astronomy
127 General works
Equipment and supplies
127.2 General works
127.4 Charge coupled devices
135 Astronomical photometry
Astronomical spectroscopy see QB465
134.5 Aeronautics in astronomy
Including
balloons, etc.
136 Space astronomy
Including astronautics in
astronomy
139 Telegraphic codes for transmission of
astronomical data
Practical and spherical astronomy
Cf. QB66, Use of globes
Cf. VK551+ Nautical astronomy
140 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial publications
143 Dictionaries and encyclopedias
144 Early works through 1800
145 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
147 Celestial sphere and coordinates
149 Statistical astronomy
Correction and reduction of
observations
151 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
153 Personal equation
Including apparatus for its
determination
154 Errors of adjustment, etc.
Reduction to center of earth
Refraction
155 Theory and determination of
constant
156 Tables
159 Parallax
Correction for movement of earth
and equinoxes
Including determination of
constants by observation
161 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
163 Aberration
Cf. QC671, Electromagnetic
theory
165 Precession and nutation
167 Annual parallax
168 Star reduction (from mean to apparent
place)
169 Position of the pole
171 Determination of the ecliptic
Prediction of eclipses, occultations and transits
175 General works
185 Miscellaneous phenomena at occultations and transits
Geodetic astronomy
Including determination of geographical positions
201 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
Observations
Cf. QB296.A1+ Observations
(Geodesy)
205.A1
Periodicals, societies, congresses, serial
publications
205.A2 General
works, treatises, and textbooks
205.A3-Z By
region or country, A-Z
e.g.
205.M6 General works
205.M7A-.M7Z Local, A-Z
205.U4-.U5 General works
205.U6A-.U6Z By region or state, A-Z
205.U7A-.U7Z By city, A-Z
207 Azimuth. Determination of meridian
Time
For historical chronology,
calendar, etc., see CE1+
Cf. BD638, Cosmology
BF468, Psychology
GN476.3, Anthropology
QC173.59.T5, Time
dilatation
209 General works
209.5 Juvenile works
Time service
210.A1 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
210.A3-Z By region or country, A-Z
211 Sidereal and solar, and their
conversion
213 Methods of finding the time
214 Instruments for measuring the time
Including hourglasses
Cf. TS540+ Watches and clocks
215 Sundials and dialing
216
217 Equation of time
221 Time signals, etc.
223 Systems and standards
224 Prime meridians
Longitude and latitude
224.5 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
224.7.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
Longitude
225 Methods of determination
228 Tables and ephemerides
Observations
229 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
229.5.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
Latitude
231 Methods of determination
233 Tables and ephemerides
Observations
235 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
235.5.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
237 Variation of latitude
Geodesy
275 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
279 Dictionaries and encyclopedias
280 Collected works (nonserial)
280.5 History
281 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
281.5 Geodesy as a profession. Vocational
guidance
283 Mathematical theory of the figure of
the earth
Cf. QA827, Attractions of
ellipsoids
Cf. QB331, Isostasy
Cf. QB410, Rotating masses of
fluids
285 Popular works
286 Juvenile works
287 Addresses, essays, lectures
291 Special arc measures
Observations
296.A1 General works, treatises, and textbooks
296.A3-Z By region or country, A-Z
297 Data processing
Biography
297.9 Collective
298.A-Z Individual, A-Z
e.g.
298.H4 Hassler
298.R8 Rylke
Study and teaching. Research
299 General works
299.5.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
Geodetic surveying
Cf. TA501+ Plane surveying
Cf. VK588+ Hydrographic
surveying
301 General works
303 Base measuring
Including apparatus
Cf. QC101, Standards of length
311 Triangulation
Cf. TA583, Plane surveying
321 Theory and computation. Tables, etc.
Cf. QA275, Least squares
325 Traverse surveying
Cf. TA585, Plane surveying
Instruments
Cf. TA562+ Surveying
instruments,
methods, etc.
328.A1 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
328.A2-Z Special, A-Z
328.G4 Geodimeter
328.P7 Prismatic astrolabe
328.T4 Tellurometer
Gravity determinations
330 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
331 Theory and description of
apparatus. Isostasy
Cf. QA862.P4, Dynamics of pendulum
Observations
Including length of seconds,
pendulum, etc.
334 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
335.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
336 Data processing
Gravity anomalies
337 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
337.5.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
338 Plumbline
deflections
339 Disturbances
Including lunar, solar, earth
movements
341 Constant of gravitation. Mean density of the earth
343 Satellite geodesy. Artificial satellites in geodesy
Cf. TL798.G4, Geodetic
satellites
Theoretical astronomy and celestial
mechanics
Cf. TL1050+ Astrodynamics
349 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
350 Collected works (nonserial)
350.5 History
351 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
353 Addresses, essays, lectures
Calculation of orbits
For orbits of individual planets, see
QB371+
For planetary orbits in general,
see QB603.M6
355 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
355.3 Kepler's
laws
355.5 Kepler's
equation
357 Comets (General)
For orbits of individual
comets, see QB723.A+
Perturbations
Planetary theory
361 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
361.9 Special aspects of the subject as a
whole
362.A-Z Special topics, A-Z
362.F47 Few-body problems
362.M3 Many body problem
362.T5 Three body problem
362.T9 Two body problem
369 Tables and observations
Individual planets
Including tables and orbits
371 Mercury
372 Venus
374 Sun's apparent motion
376 Mars
Asteroids. Minor planets
377 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
Individual
378.A-Z By name, A-Z
379 By number, if unnamed
384 Jupiter and Saturn
387 Uranus
388
389 Ultra-Neptunian planets
Lunar theory
391 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
391.9 Special aspects of the subject as a
whole
392.A-Z Special topics, A-Z
392.C3 Capture of the moon by the earth
392.I5 Inequalities of the moon's motion
392.O3 Occultations
of stars
397 Observations
399 Tables, charts, diagrams, etc.
Satellites
Including individual planetary
satellites
Cf. QB603.R55, Planetary rings
Cf. TL796+ Artificial
satellites
401 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
401.5 Juvenile works
403 Satellites of Mars
404 Satellites of Jupiter
405 Satellites and ring system of
Saturn
406 Satellites
407 Satellites and ring system of
408
Satellites of Pluto
410 Figures of equilibrium of rotating
masses of fluid
Theory of tides
Cf. GC300+ Oceanography
Cf. QC809.E2, Earth tides
Cf. VK600+ Tidetables
414 Early works through 1800
General works, treatises, and
textbooks
415 1801-1969
415.2 1970-
416 Special aspects of the subject as a
whole
418 Dictionaries and encyclopedias
419 Miscellany and curiosa
Instruments, see GC306
421 Theory of double star systems
Cosmochemistry
450 General works
450.5 Cosmic abundances
Astrogeology
Cf. QB592, Lunar geology
Cf. QB603.G46, Planetary geology
Biography
454 Collective
454.2.A-Z Individual, A-Z
455 General works
455.2 Astromineralogy
455.5 Extraterrestrial seismology
456 Multiring
basins
Astrophysics (General)
460 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
460.15 Collected works (nonserial)
Biography
460.7 Collective
460.72.A-Z Individual, A-Z
461 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
461.3 Popular works
461.5 Addresses, essays, lectures
462.2 Data processing
462.3 Mathematics
462.5 Radio astrophysics
462.6 Molecular astrophysics
462.65 Relativistic astrophysics
Plasma astrophysics
462.7 General works
462.72 Double layers
462.8 Cosmic magnetic fields
Nuclear astrophysics
463 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
463.15 Collected works (nonserial)
464 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
464.15 Particle acceleration
464.2 Neutrino astrophysics
465 Astronomical spectroscopy
Cf. QB551, Spectroscopy of sun
and eclipses
Cf. QB870+ Stellar spectroscopy
466.A-Z Other special topics, A-Z
466.A25 Accretion
466.C45 Chaotic behavior in systems
466.C64 Collisions
466.C66 Controlled fusion
466.C67 Cosmochronology
466.D58 Disks
466.E65 Equations of state
466.F58 Fluid dynamics
466.G38 Gas dynamics
466.J46 Jets
466.M37 Mass loss
466.P67 Positronium
Non-optical methods of astronomy
468 General works
Infrared astronomy
470.A1 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
470.A5-Z General works, treatises, and textbooks
Gamma-ray astronomy
471.A1 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
471.A5-Z General works, treatises, and textbooks
471.7.A5-Z Special topics, A-Z
471.B85 Bursts
X-ray astronomy
472.A1 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
472.A5-Z General works, treatises, and textbooks
472.5 Juvenile works
473 Addresses, essays, lectures
474 Ultraviolet astronomy
Radio astronomy
Cf. QB860, Quasars
475.A1 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
475.A15 Collected works (nonserial)
475.A2 Dictionaries and encyclopedias
History
475.A25 General works
475.A28A-.A28Z
By region or country, A-Z
476.5 General works, treatises, and textbooks
477 Popular works
478 Juvenile works
478.5 Addresses, essays, lectures
Observatories
479.A2 General works
479.A5-Z By region or country, A-Z
Under each country:
.x General works
.x2A-x2Z Individual observatories. By name, A-Z
479.2 Radio telescopes
479.3 Radio interferometers
479.4 Millimeter astronomy
Radio sources
479.5 General works
479.55.A-Z Individual radio sources or types of radio
sources, A-Z
479.55.C93 Cygnus A
479.55.H68 Hot spots
479.55.M18 M87 (Galaxy)
479.55.R34 Radio galaxies
479.55.S88 Superluminal
480 Radar in astronomy
Descriptive astronomy
Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications see QB1
General works, treatises, and
textbooks see QB42+
Universe. Space.
Space sciences
Cf. QB980+, Cosmology
Cf. TL787+, Astronautics. Space travel
495 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publication
496 Collected works
497 Dictionaries and encyclopedias
497.2 Communication in space sciences
History
498 General works
498.2.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
500 General works, treatises, and
advanced textbooks
500.22 Juvenile works
500.24 Addresses, essays, lectures
500.25 Special aspects of the subject as a
whole
500.26.A-Z Special topics, A-Z
500.26.D38 Data processing
500.26.I58 International cooperation
500.26.S67 Space optics
Study and teaching. Research
Including exploration of
outer space
500.262 General works
500.264 Experiments
500.266.A-Z By region or country, A-Z
Orbiting astronomical
observatories
500.267 General works
500.268 Hubble Space Telescope
500.269 Next Generation Space Telescope [James
Webb Space Telescope]
500.28 Northern sky
500.3 Southern sky
Solar system
500.5 Periodicals, societies, congresses,
serial
publications
501 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
501.2 Popular works
501.3 Juvenile works
501.5 Study and teaching. Research
502 Miscellany and curiosa
503 Age of solar system. Origin of solar system
505 Physical conditions
Including atmospheres,
resisting medium, etc.
507 Proper motion in space
Solar parallax and related
constants
508 General works
Transit of Venus
509 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
511 1761 and 1769 transits
512 1874 transit
513 1882 transit
513.2 2004 transit
515 Transit of Mercury
516 Observations of Mars and asteroids
518 Other methods
Sun
520 Periodicals, societies,
congresses, serial
publications
521 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
521.4 Popular works
521.5 Juvenile works
521.6 Addresses, essays, lectures
522 Tables, etc.
Cf. QB374, Perturbations
523 Mass, diameter, rotation, etc.
Solar activity
524 General works
525 Sunspots
Cf. BF1729.S92, Astrology
526.A-Z Other special topics, A-Z
526.A37 Active regions
526.C9 Cycles
Energetic particles
see QB526.S65
526.F3
Faculae
526.F6 Flares
526.F64 Flocculi. Plages
Plages,
see QB526.F64
526.P7
Prominences
526.S65 Solar
energetic particles
528 Atmosphere, chromosphere
529 General works
529.5 Coronal holes
529.6 Corotating
interaction regions
531 Radiation, temperature, etc.
Cf. QC910.2+ Solar radiation in
meteorology
539.A-Z Other special topics, A-Z
539.C6 Composition
539.E4 Electric field
539.E8 Evolution
539.G7 Granulation
Helioseismology,
see QB539.I5
539.I5 Interior
Including helioseismology
539.M23 Magnetic field
539.N6 Noise storms
539.N8 Nuclear reactions
539.O83 Oscillations
539.P58 Polarimetry
539.R3 Radio effects
Seismology, see QB539.I5
539.S5 Size
539.S65 Solar neutrinos
539.S655 Solar x-rays
539.T4 Terrestrial-solar relations
540 Miscellany and curiosa
Solar eclipses
Including works on solar and
lunar eclipses
combined
Cf. BL325.E35, Eclipses
(Mythology)
541 General works, treatises, and
textbooks
541.5 Juvenile works
542 Through 1799
Class here works on
individual solar eclipses