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Loading contentThe catalogues of bright deep-sky showpieces made for the eye and the small telescope — Charles Messier's eighteenth-century list of 'objects to avoid' when comet-hunting, and Patrick Moore's later Caldwell Catalogue that gathers the bright objects Messier passed over.
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Official naming, definitions, constellation boundaries, and astronomical nomenclature.