1730
Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (died 1817)
Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (died 1817)
Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (died 1817)
Charles Messier
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
- Born
- 1730
Charles Messier was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Messier's purpose for the catalogue was to help astronomical observers distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky.