A recent master catalog of 1791 galaxy distances is that of R.B. Tully et al., 2008, ApJ, Vol. 676, p.184
The catalog itself is not fully included in this paper, and it is referred to in this paper as "Catalog of Galaxy Distances"
However, when actually accessing the catalog data at the CDS website, the catalog has this awkward name:
"Peculiar Motion Away from The Local Void (Tully+ 2008)"
(which is odd, as this title states one possible
purpose of using this catalog, rather than what the catalog actually contains!!)
The galaxy distances in this catalog are composed of the following:
(1) 1030 individual galaxy distances derived by means of the Tully-Fisher relation, which are accurate at about the 20 percent level; this accuracy is good enough for finding the distance of a Galaxy Group or Galaxy Cluster (if you average the distance estimates for all the cluster members, you end up with a reasonably reliable distance for a cluster of galaxies)
(2) The majority of the other galaxy distances in this catalog were determined using the more reliable techniques of : Cepheid, SBF and TRGB methods. These distances are nominally accurate to +/- 10 percent.
You will note that the distances of galaxies that are given in this catalog are given as
distance moduli, rather than as
actual physical distances in Megaparsecs(millions of parsecs). However, if need be, I can give you a simple formula (using college/high-school algebra) that quickly converts the
distance modulus of a galaxy into its
actual distance. I can also help with "de-jargonizing" some of the arcane symbols used in this catalog!!
(but don't ask me how to convert the heliocentric recession velocity of a galaxy into the "Local Sheet of galaxies" reference frame!)
How to access the catalog of 1791 galaxy distances:
(1) Access the website of the CDS data archive:
http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr
(2) Click on "explore and look for catalogues"
(3) Write "Tully" in the search box, and press ENTER
(4) A list of various galaxy catalogs and data tables comes up, all of them with R.B.Tully as one of the authors.
(5) Find, in this list of galaxy catalogs, the one with this title: "Peculiar Motion Away from The Local Void(Tully+ 2008)"
(6) Click on "Vizier" at the right of this catalog name, to begin the process of displaying the catalog data.
(7) On the next webpage which comes up, click on "J/ApJ/676/184/table1" in order to bring up the page on which you will select
which columns of data to display.
[ You can also select the
number of rows of data you wish to display;there are over 1000 rows in this catalog of galaxy distances. ]
(8) Then, a page comes up in which you use check boxes to decide which of the dozens of columns in this catalog you actually want to display. At an absolute minimum, I suggest displaying the: record number, galaxy coordinates, galaxy ID, galaxy recession velocity, and the galaxy distance measurements (distance modulus)
(9) Click on "Submit" to bring up a viewable and printable version of this catalog of distances of various galaxies.
Enjoy!!
Galaxy Distance Measurement techniques (fortunately) use simple algebra of the sort that many of us learnt at school or college. A very thorough and relatively easy review paper is:
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/J..._abstract.html