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Messier Atlas
A chart of the Messier objects — the nebulae, clusters, and galaxies of Charles Messier's eighteenth-century catalogue — each placed at its real celestial coordinates and sized by its apparent extent. The classic target list for a first tour of the deep sky.
Objects & views it draws on
Across the atlas
Knowledge connections
- Associated withMessier 1 (Crab Nebula)
- Associated withMessier Catalogue
- Associated withDeep-Sky Atlas
- Associated withNGC Explorer
- Associated withTelescope Field-of-View Overlay
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- OpenNGCOpenNGC (M. Verga) — NGC/IC, Messier, and Caldwell catalogue data
Openly-licensed deep-sky catalogue: object types, positions, magnitudes, sizes, morphology, and cross-identifiers.