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  2. Messier object - Wikipedia

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    The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles (Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them ...

  3. Category:Astronomical catalogues - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Star catalogue; Star chart; 0–9. ... Messier object; Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources;

  4. Timeline of astronomical maps, catalogs, and surveys

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    c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria; c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map; c. 150 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology; c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang

  5. File:MessierStarChart.svg - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; In other projects ... You are free: to share – to copy, ... A star chart for the messier catalogue objects

  6. List of astronomical catalogues - Wikipedia

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    GSC2 / GSC II — Guide Star Catalog II; GSPC — Guide Star Photometric Catalog. GSPC2 — Guide Star Photometric Catalog, 2nd; Gsh — J. Glaisher (double stars) GΣ — G. Struve (double stars) Gtb — K. Gottlieb (double stars) Gui — J. Guillaume (double stars) Gum — Gum catalog of emission nebulae

  7. Astronomical catalog - Wikipedia

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    Henry Draper's Henry Draper Catalogue, published between 1918 and 1924, lists more than 225,000 of the brightest stars, named using HD followed by a 6-digit number. Sir Patrick Moore compiled the Caldwell catalogue in 1995 to complement the Messier catalog, listing 109 bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies named C1 to C109. This is a list ...

  8. 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;

  9. Category:Astronomical catalogues of stars - Wikipedia

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    Cape Photographic Catalogue; Carte du Ciel; Catalog of 5,268 Standard Stars Based on the Normal System N30; Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars; Catalog of Nearby Habitable Systems; Catalog of Stellar Identifications; Catalogue of rotational velocities of the stars; Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits; Catalogues of ...