Messier objects, named after the French astronomer Charles Messier, are a set of 110 astronomical objects that include galaxies, nebulae and star clusters but explicitly excludes comets. Messier was only interested in comets but his findings were obscured with all sorts of other celestial bodies. He thus classed all non-comet bodies as Messier Objects that are represented by the letter ‘M’ and a number. This helped other comet Observers to narrow their search by avoiding these objects listed in the
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