"Sly boots 9" wrote in message
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can anybody help me?
Messier.
Basically, an astronomer, who made a list of objects that observers _might_
potentially be able to confuse for comets. Some are easy to understand as
'confusable', while others are very hard to believe that this was possible.
The list represents many of the most visible northern sky objects. Look at:
http://www.r-clarke.org.uk/messier/messier2.htm

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