SEDS Messier database, Indexes

THE MESSIER CATALOG

Indexes

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Messier Indexes

Click on the image for accessing each Messier object directly

Index of Messier Objects with image icons or in

text mode

Messier Object Datafile with image icons or

in text mode

Messier Objects by Type,

Right Ascension,

Declination, or

visual magnitude

Messier Objects by Constellation in

image icons or in

text mode or as

short table

Messier Object Photo List in

image icons or in

text mode

(including world wide links).

Messier’s Original

Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters,

Messier biography, & other

Historic Messier Stuff

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  Icon Sheet:

  Clickable icons for all Messier objects in one screen,

  or static Messier poster (195k gif).

  Create this poster online by yourself

  (this link loads all the icons on runtime)

  More Messier Posters

  
  

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  Quick browser for our Messier images

• DSSM image browser

  (Images from the Digital Sky Survey,

  collected by Bill Arnett)

  
  

• NGC and IC numbers associated with Messier objects
• Cross-Reference list of other catalog numbers for

  Messier objects

• Messier objects as in Sky Atlas

  and Sky Catalogue 2000.0

• Messier Objects in the Uranometria 2000.0

  (data from Deep Sky Field Guide)

• Messier Objects in APOD

  (from NASA’s Astronomy

  Picture of the Day)

• NED data for Messier Catalog Galaxies

  (from the NASA/IPAC

  Extragalactic Database (NED))

• Complete Icon Reference
• Messier Catalog References
• Some basis astronomical terms

  used in the Messier pages;

  small deep sky glossary

• Messier Marathon: The Ultimate

  Observing Experience

• The Hottest Messier Stuff Available
• Constellation index of all constellations

  containing at least one Messier object;

  Constellations and Stars pages (Chris Kronberg)

• Other Catalogs and Observing Lists

  more or less similar to the Messier Catalog

• Historical Deep Sky Objects:

  List of all 152 Deep Sky Object discovered before William Herschel began

  his extensive survey in September, 1782, in various formats

• Indexes for the Non-Messier Objects in this database

• List of Contributors

  Please read our usage regulations page

  if you intend any non-private usage.

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  Hartmut Frommert

  ([email protected])

  Christine Kronberg

  ([email protected])

  

  

  

  Last Modification: 24 Jan 1998, 14:10 MET