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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
Sly boots 9 wrote:
can anybody help me? Charles Messier http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/CMessier.html http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astr...erObjects.html |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
Sly boots 9 wrote:
can anybody help me? Charles Messier http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/CMessier.html http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astr...erObjects.html |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
"Sly boots 9" wrote in message ... 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 Best Wishes |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
"Sly boots 9" wrote in message ... 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 Best Wishes |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
Sly boots 9 wrote:
can anybody help me? The M stands for Messier, as in Charles Messier, French comet hunter and deep sky object cataloguer. M66 is the 66th object in his catalogue of deep sky objects. Initially inspired by the need to distinguish comets (which move through the constellations) from other deep sky objects (which do not), the catalogue eventually stood on its own. In its final form, it runs from M1 (the Crab Nebula) through M110 (a companion of the Great Andromeda Galaxy, itself catalogued as M31). Even today, there is some dispute over the identity of one of the objects--M102, which is alternately considered a duplicate of M101 on one hand, or NGC 5866 on the other. (There may be a few other minor candidates, but those are the two big ones.) Messier lived from 1730 to 1817. He is buried in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, in Paris. Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
Sly boots 9 wrote:
can anybody help me? The M stands for Messier, as in Charles Messier, French comet hunter and deep sky object cataloguer. M66 is the 66th object in his catalogue of deep sky objects. Initially inspired by the need to distinguish comets (which move through the constellations) from other deep sky objects (which do not), the catalogue eventually stood on its own. In its final form, it runs from M1 (the Crab Nebula) through M110 (a companion of the Great Andromeda Galaxy, itself catalogued as M31). Even today, there is some dispute over the identity of one of the objects--M102, which is alternately considered a duplicate of M101 on one hand, or NGC 5866 on the other. (There may be a few other minor candidates, but those are the two big ones.) Messier lived from 1730 to 1817. He is buried in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, in Paris. Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
lal_truckee wrote:
The "M" is for Mucho Grande. And the 66 refers to Route 66, wherefrom the galaxy was first viewed from the backseat of a red Corvette. Oh, so you mean when she said she saw stars, she *wasn't* speaking figuratively? Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
lal_truckee wrote:
The "M" is for Mucho Grande. And the 66 refers to Route 66, wherefrom the galaxy was first viewed from the backseat of a red Corvette. Oh, so you mean when she said she saw stars, she *wasn't* speaking figuratively? Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt |
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what is the M in M66 spiral Galaxy?
Sly boots 9 wrote:
can anybody help me? The "M" is for Mucho Grande. And the 66 refers to Route 66, wherefrom the galaxy was first viewed from the backseat of a red Corvette. |
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