The Messier objects /
Charles Messier (1730-1817) devoted much of his life to searching the skies for comets. As he continued his comet hunting, Messier added other curious deep-sky objects to the list, largely with help from a young rival, Pierre Mechain. By 1781 the Messier catalog had grown to 103 entries
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge, U.K. :
Sky Pub. Corp. ; Cambridge University Press,
1998
Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Sky Publishing ; Cambridge University Press, 1998 Cambridge, Mass. : Cambridge, U.K. : 1998 |
| Series: | Deep-sky companions
Deep-sky companions |
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