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SEDS Messier Database
During the years from 1758 to 1782
Charles Messier, a French astronomer
(1730 - 1817), compiled
a list of approximately 100 diffuse
objects that were difficult to distinguish from comets through th...
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Messier 39
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Messier 39
Perhaps seen by Le Gentil in 1750.
Discovered by Charles Messier on October 24, 1764.
Messier:
October 24, 1764. 39.
21h 23m 49s (...
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Messier 25
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Messier 25
Independently rediscovered by Charles Messier on June 20, 1764.
In the catalogs of Bode, Smyth, and Webb, but not in John Herschel's
and the NGC...
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Messier 5
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Messier 5
Independently rediscovered by Charles Messier on May 23, 1764.
Messier:
May 23, 1764. 5.
15h 06m 36s (226d 39' 04") +2d 57' 16"
Beautifu...
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Leos Ondra: Messier 5 and its Variables
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This article and the accompanying figures were available at an
anonymous ftp psycho.fme.vutbr.cz (147.229.32.10), cd astronomy/APO
(ascii file m5.txt and binary files m5fig1.gif to m5...
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Discovery Table of the Deep Sky Objects
Disc-# Rec-# Object Year Discoverer/Notes
0 0 Milky Way pre-hist (doesn't count here)
0 0 UMa cluster pre-hist (doesn't count h...