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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.

-60°-30°+30°+60°BeehivePtolemy's ClusterAndromeda GalaxyGreat Orion NebulaButterfly ClusterM 47M 41M 25M 39M 10M 35M 34
105 Messier objects plotted at their measured coordinates (equirectangular projection).

Across the atlas

Knowledge connections

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.