Messier

Messier: noun

a) A French surname.

b) (1730-1817); a French astronomer who in 1774 published Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of 45 deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters. The purpose of the catalogue was to help comet hunters (like himself) and other astronomical observers to distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky. Objects in Messiers catalog are numbered, and the letter M (for Messier) is prepended to these numbers, as in M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or M13 (the globular cluster in Hercules).

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Messier 90 — Observation data Epoch J2000 Constellation Virgo[ … Wikipedia
Messier 91 — Spiral Galaxy M91 Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Coma Berenices Right ascension … Wikipedia
Messier 60 — M60 by 2MASS Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Virgo[ … Wikipedia
Messier 98 — Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Coma Berenices … Wikipedia
Messier 99 — A near infrared image of M99. Credit: 2MASS/NASA. Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation … Wikipedia
Messier 83 — An ESO image of Messier 83. Credit: ESO. Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Hydra … Wikipedia
Messier 73 — Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Aquarius … Wikipedia
Messier 41 — Credit: 2MASS/NASA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation … Wikipedia
Messier 74 — Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Pisces … Wikipedia
Messier — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Charles Messier (1730–1817), französischer Astronom Éric Messier (* 1973), kanadischer Eishockeyspieler George Messier (1896–1933), französischer Industrieller Jean Marie Messier, französischer… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Messier 15 — M15 photographed by HST. The planetary nebula Pease 1 can be seen as a small blue object to the lower left of the core of the cluster. Observation … Wikipedia

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