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Old April 9th 04, 11:17 PM
Sly boots 9
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can anybody help me?
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Old April 9th 04, 11:23 PM
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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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Old April 9th 04, 11:23 PM
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Sly boots 9 wrote:

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Charles Messier
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/CMessier.html
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Old April 9th 04, 11:27 PM
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"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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Old April 9th 04, 11:27 PM
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"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

Best Wishes


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Old April 9th 04, 11:29 PM
Brian Tung
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Sly boots 9 wrote:
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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
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Old April 9th 04, 11:29 PM
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Sly boots 9 wrote:
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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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Old April 9th 04, 11:29 PM
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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
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Old April 9th 04, 11:29 PM
Brian Tung
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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
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Old April 9th 04, 11:44 PM
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Sly boots 9 wrote:

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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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