Charles Messier (1730 - 1817) was a famous comet hunter and is nowadays famous for his Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters. The catalog contains 110 deep sky objects, commonly referred to as the Messier Catalog.
Each entry in the catalog is named using the initial letter 'M' (for 'Messier' obviously) and the catalog number. Examples include M1 (Crab Nebula) and M31 (Andromeda Galaxy). Below are my attempts to capture some of the Messier objects. Some objects always lie below my local horizon, so this table will probably never be complete.
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M1
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M2
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M3
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M4
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M5
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M6
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M7
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M8
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M9
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M10
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M11
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M12
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M13
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M14
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M15
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M16
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M17
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M18
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M19
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M20
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M21
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M22
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M23
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M24
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M25
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M26
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M27
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M28
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M29
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M20
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M31
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M32
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M33
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M34
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M35
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M36
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M37
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M38
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M39
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M40
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M41
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M42
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M43
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M44
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M45
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M46
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M47
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M48
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M49
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M50
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M51
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M52
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M53
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M54
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M55
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M56
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M57
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M58
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M59
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M60
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M61
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M62
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M63
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M64
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M65
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M66
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M67
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M68
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M69
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M70
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M71
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M72
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M73
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M74
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M75
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M76
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M77
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M78
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M79
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M80
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M81
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M82
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M83
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M84
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M85
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M86
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M87
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M88
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M89
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M90
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M91
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M92
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M93
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M94
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M95
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M96
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M97
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M98
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M99
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M100
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M101
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M102
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M103
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M104
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M105
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M106
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M107
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M108
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M109
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M110
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