what is your favorite Messier object?youngamateur
Galaxy: Messier 82Located in the constellation Ursa Major, Messier 82 (M82) is a starburst galaxy that is approximately 12 million light-years away from Earth. This galaxy is notable for its bright, elongated shape, due to the presence of large amounts of gas and dust being pushed out of...
What is the Messier catalog? 18th-Century Astronomer Charles Messier: Charles Messier was a French astronomer in the 1700s who was fascinated with the objects he saw in the night sky. He was especially interested in comets, but as he searched for comets, he came across other anomalies in th...
A number of stars and star clusters in the night sky are referred to as Messier objects. They have this name because they were first catalogued or identified by French astronomer Charles Messier in the 1700s.Answer and Explanation: The brightest Messier object is M45, also known as Pleiades ...
Despite rather milky transparency Messier 81 and 82 showed quite nicely with good contrast. I then spent around 45 minutes trying to see comet 29/PSchwassmann–Wachmann in Auriga. It is listed at magnitude 10.6 currently but despite using a range of magnifications from 40x to 150x I could ...
A smaller, magnitude 8.4 galaxy named the Cigar or Messier 82 is located less than a finger's width below (or half a degree to the celestial north of) it. That allows both galaxies to be viewed together in the eyepiece of a telescope at low magnification (inset). Several other fainter ...
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Forest harvesting changes forest habitat and impacts forest dependent species. Uneven-aged management is often considered better for biodiversity than even-aged management, but there is an ongoing discourse over the benefits and disadvantages of differen
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77. Messier KP, Serre ML. Lung and stomach cancer associations with groundwater radon in North Carolina, USA. Int J Epidemiol. 2017;46(2):676–85. 78. Chen B, Yuan TW, Wang AQ, Zhang H, Fang LJ, Wu QQ, et al. Exposure to radon and kidney cancer: a systematic review and ...