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  2. Messier object - Wikipedia

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    Charles Messier. The first edition of 1774 covered 45 objects (M1 to M45). The total list published by Messier in 1781 contained 103 objects, but the list was expanded through successive additions by other astronomers, motivated by notes in Messier's and Méchain's texts indicating that at least one of them knew of the additional objects.

  3. Charles Messier - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys

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    1771 — Charles Messier publishes his first list of nebulae; 1824 — Urania's Mirror by Sidney Hall; 1862 — Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander publishes his final edition of the Bonner Durchmusterung catalog of stars north of declination-1°. 1864 — John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters

  5. Messier 102 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 102 (also known as M102) is a galaxy listed in the Messier Catalogue that cannot be unambiguously identified. Its original discoverer Pierre Méchain retracted his discovery two years after publication and said that it was a duplicate observation of Messier 101 . [ 1 ]

  6. Winnecke 4 - Wikipedia

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    Winnecke 4 (also known as Messier 40 or WNC 4) is an optical double star consisting of two unrelated stars in a northerly zone of the sky, Ursa Major. The pair were discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 while he was searching for a nebula that had been reported in the area by Johannes Hevelius .

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  8. Markarian's Chain - Wikipedia

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    Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were discovered by William Herschel [ 1 ] and are now known primarily by their catalog numbers in John Louis Emil Dreyer 's New General Catalogue , published in 1888. [ 2 ]

  9. Messier catalog - Wikipedia

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