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What is Messier's catalog?
( me′syāz ′kad·əl′äg ) (astronomy) A listing of 103 star clusters and nebulae compiled in 1784. Read More »
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What types of objects are in Messier's catalog?
Almost all types of deep sky objects are included: open clusters, globular clusters, planetary nebulae, emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, and galaxies. The only major class of deep sky objects not included are dark nebulae. There are al... Read More »
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What is the messier catalog number of the Andromeda galaxy?
Andromeda Spiral Galaxy , also known as M31 and as the Andromeda Galaxy, large spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda, Read More »
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Because usually, Messier did not include objects which resemble a comet so bad as the famous cluster. This leads to the question why he included the Orion Nebula, the Pleiades, and Praesepe Those were included in one night, that of March 4,...
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Source: http://messier.seds.org/m-q&a.html
First, after the catalog was submitted for publication, he added one more object more or less immediately, the Sombrero galaxy M104 (May 1781). Parallel to and after that, he was apparently busy in observing and calculating the orbit of Her...
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Messier's catalog was not intended as a Deep Sky catalog at all, but as a list of nebulae which can easily fool comet hunters by looking like comets. Thus it contains mainly objects which, at least in the rather small instruments Messier ha...
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Best you can do is contact the author of the questions (Hartmut Frommert) and ask your question. There's a good chance that it is interesting enough for being added to this list.
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The author of the downloadable NGC/IC catalog has released it with the restriction that it may not be used commercially. For most KStars users, this is not a problem. However, it is technically against the KStars license (the GPL ) to restr...
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Source: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdeedu/kstars/faq.html
