The Milky Way has no categorising designation. It is just called "the Milky Way Galaxy". No NGC or IC or M or any other designation. Yes, it has galactic type of description, a barred spiral, of which evolutionary type I cannot recall. But it is just the plain old Milky Way Galaxy. That's it.
I guess it is a bit of a quirk of the way that Science, astronomy for that matter, has evolved itself. The ultimate discovery that the galaxies we know today as being 'island universes' is less than 100 years old. Previously they were thought to be 'spiral nebulae' and the such, but just different types of nebula. And as astronomy progressed, even though we came to understand that we ourselves are part of one such 'island universe', no one thought to name it otherwise as MW, and the name Milky Way just became the accepted name, and no other designation has been given. That it is called Milky Way is nothing more than the accepted scientific nomenclature of Greek and Latin origin.
'NGC 0000' - I can see my Argo Navis having a dummy spit over that one! But it could work as all it would require is the 0hr right ascension to cross directly over the MW somewhere, that's all, Point zero I guess.
But Tony wants you to collect it from ALL the species in the Galaxy under his Galaxy Services Tax If you could mail it to him quarterly when your collecting has finished...
Boy! the G.S.T paperwork is going to be a real pain...
Hate to burst your collective bubbles but the IAU has given the galaxy we live an official name it's "the Galaxy". That is the correct name for it.
In the same way it's "the Moon" (note the capital M) referring to Earth's moon and the official name for our star is, "The Sun".
The IAU for those of you who don't know, is the International Astronomers Union and it's been responsible for the naming of all objects outside of the Earth's atmosphere since 1919
Hate to burst your collective bubbles but the IAU has given the galaxy we live an official name it's "the Galaxy". That is the correct name for it.
In the same way it's "the Moon" (note the capital M) referring to Earth's moon and the official name for our star is, "The Sun".
The IAU for those of you who don't know, is the International Astronomers Union and it's been responsible for the naming of all objects outside of the Earth's atmosphere since 1919
That makes sense, historically (and referring to my earlier post) our galaxy was the only one known, so "The Galaxy" makes obvious sense. And in a way the term "Milky Way Galaxy" is redundant as the term galaxy comes from the Greek word for Milky anyway!
Hate to burst your collective bubbles but the IAU has given the galaxy we live an official name it's "the Galaxy". That is the correct name for it. See: http://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/
But it could work as all it would require is the 0hr right ascension to cross directly over the MW somewhere, that's all, 
