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Other astronomers, using side notes in Messier's texts, eventually filled out the list up to 110 objects. [9] The catalogue consists of a diverse range of astronomical objects, from star clusters and nebulae to galaxies. For example, Messier 1 is a supernova remnant, known as the Crab Nebula, and the great spiral Andromeda Galaxy is M31.
1678 — Edmond Halley publishes a catalog of 341 southern stars, the first systematic southern sky survey 1712 — Isaac Newton and Edmond Halley publish a catalog based on data from a Royal Astronomer who left all his data under seal, the official version would not be released for another decade.
Sir Patrick Moore compiled the Caldwell catalogue in 1995 for amateur astronomers, as a complement to the Messier catalogue. It lists 109 bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, named C1 to C109, [ 8 ] and is a list of deep-sky objects of interest rather than a catalogue in the professional science sense.
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Charles Messier (French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer.He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110.
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