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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 ...

3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects/Catalogues/Messier ...

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   3 Messier 1-110. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: WikiProject Astronomical objects/Catalogues/Messier Catalogue. Add languages. Add links. Project page; Talk;

4. 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.

5. Category:Messier objects - Wikipedia

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   Articles with the Messier number in the title use [[Category:Messier objects|###]], dropping the M prefix, and using only the number. The number should be padded up to 3 digits using zeroes. Articles without the Messier number in the title use [[Category:Messier objects]]. A redirect containing the Messier number should also be added to the ...

6. Caldwell catalogue - Wikipedia

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   The list was compiled by Patrick Moore as a complement to the Messier catalogue. [1] While the Messier catalogue is used by amateur astronomers as a list of deep-sky objects for observation, Moore noted that Messier's list was not compiled for that purpose and excluded many of the sky's brightest deep-sky objects, [1] such as the Hyades, the ...

7. Small Sagittarius Star Cloud - Wikipedia

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   Messier described M24 as a "large nebulosity containing many stars" and gave its dimensions as being some 1.5° across. Some sources, improperly, identify M24 as the small open cluster NGC 6603. [5] The location of the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud is near the Omega Nebula (also known as M17) and open cluster Messier 18, both north of M24. M24 ...