Messier Catalog

Among all collections of celestial bodies that have been, are and will be, no one doubts that the Messier Catalog is the most used, studied and known. This is a list of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae that Charles Messier compiled during the second half of theeighteenth century, as “annoying” objects that hampered his search for comets, which was his true occupation, and often confused him.

I have included the entire catalog in the following table, and will add links to the articles of La bitácora de Galileo where they are studied. In some cases the reader is referred to a case study on the subject in question and otherto the article of the constellation to which it belongs, which speaks of the star. Completing the links will go as we proceed through the blog content. Hopefully this tool will be useful.