Catalog family
Deep-Sky Visual Catalogues
The 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.
Highlights
- ›Messier and Caldwell — the showpieces of the deep sky
Related catalogues & sources
Across the catalogue layer
Knowledge connections
- Associated withCaldwell Catalogue
- Associated withMessier Catalogue
- Associated withCaldwell Catalogue
- Associated withCharles Messier
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- IAUInternational Astronomical Union
Official naming, definitions, constellation boundaries, and astronomical nomenclature.