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  2. Messier object - Wikipedia

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    A preliminary version of the catalogue first appeared in 1774 in the Memoirs of the French Academy of Sciences for the year 1771. [3] [4] [5] The first version of Messier's catalogue contained 45 objects, which were not numbered. Eighteen of the objects were discovered by Messier; the rest had been previously observed by other astronomers. [6 ...

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  4. Astronomical catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The Messier catalogue: the Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771. Nebulae and Star Clusters was published in 1781, with objects M1–M110. The New General Catalogue or NGC, compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer, lists objects NGC 0001 – NGC 7840. It is one of the largest ...

  5. 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.

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  7. List of planetary nebulae - Wikipedia

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    Messier Catalogue [a] NGC [a] Other designation [a] Date discovered [a] Distance [a] [b] Apparent magnitude (visual) [a] Constellation [a] Glowing Eye Nebula or Dandelion Puffball Nebula: NGC 6751: 1863 6.5 11.9 Aquila: Turtle Nebula: NGC 6210: 1825 4.7 9.3 Hercules: Bow-Tie Nebula: NGC 40: Caldwell 2 1788 3.5 11.4 Cepheus: Ghost of Jupiter ...

  8. Messier catalog - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 2 March 2004, at 20:11 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  9. Messier 34 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 34 (also known as M34, NGC 1039, or the Spiral Cluster) is a large and relatively near open cluster in Perseus. It was probably discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 [ 4 ] and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet -like objects in 1764.