[AZ-Observing] Re: Why Is M44 The Beehive?
- From: "Brian Page" <brpage@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:35:48 -0700
O'Meara's new book, "The Caldwell Objects" has a very good discussion of all
this in an appendix whose topic is why the Double Cluster was not included
in Messier's lists. It seems to answer the question in a reasonable manner.
Brian Page
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From: "Brian Skiff" <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Why Is M44 The Beehive?
> It is obvious that Messier included objects merely to pad the list
> (M41,42,43,44,45 --- which closed the first publication), but also
> simply because they were new. The old line that they were things to be
> mistaken as comets applies to maybe first three before he became more
> inclusive, and so the "mistaken comets" bit is not the whole story or even
> especially accurate.
>
> \Brian
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