Messier Deep Sky Objects M1 to M12
Charles Messier was a French astonomer that lived from
1730 to 1817. He is know for publishing an astronomical catalog of 110
deep sky objects including star clusters, nebula. He was a comet hunter
and during his observing sessions he would catalog non-comet objects to avoid
taking extra time to sort out comets he was looking for. Messier did not
discover all the objects in his catalog, but is credited for a number of them.
The Messier Catalog, M1 to M110, are Northern Hemisphere Objects visible during
different time of the year. It only had 103 objects listed from his
offical final version, but objects M104 to M110 were added between 1921 and 1966
as offical Messier Catalog objects. It was determined that Messier had
observed these objects shortly after his offical catalog was published.
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| M1 - The Crab Nebula |
M2 - Globular Cluster |
M3 - Globular Cluster |
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| M4 - Globular Cluster |
M5 - Globular Cluster |
M6 - The Butterfly Cluster |
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| M7 - The Ptolemy Cluster |
M8 - The Lagoon Nebula |
M9 - Globular Cluster |
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| M10 - Globular Cluster |
M11 - The Wild Duck Cluster |
M12 - Globular Cluster |
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