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Messier object
The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771. The original motivation of the catalogue was that Messier was a comet hunter, and was frustrated by objects which resembled but were not comets. He therefore compiled a list of these objects, in collaboration with his assistant Pierre Méchain.A similar list had been published in 1654 by Giovanni Hodierna, but had no impact and was probably not known to Messier. Cite error: There are tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{Reflist}} template or a tag; see the help page.
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