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Sizes are given for M1-M34 but not M34-M110!!!??? David Moore, Editor Astronomy Ireland magazine 2A00:23C8:A2FB:4601:4D78:8CFC:E9BB:AE3F (talk) 01:44, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shock! Horror! Amazement!

Clearly no one has yet to add them to the table. Feel free. Primefac (talk) 08:56, 17 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I just filled in the apparent dimension numbers based on objects' individual pages. So much fun! :) Assambrew (talk) 01:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article gives 1967 as the year for M110 being added to the messier catalog, but the Encyclopedia Britannicia gives the date 1966[1]. Icouldnotthinkofabettername (talk) 21:34, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Kenneth Glyn Jones, Messier's Nebulae & Star Clusters, (1st edition 1968), p. 16, lists 110 as being added (by Glyn Jones) in 1966. -- Elphion (talk) 00:00, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliographic info: Kenneth Glyn Jones, Messier's Nebulae & Star Clusters, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 16, ISBN 0-521-37079-5. First edition published in 1968. -- Elphion (talk) 00:10, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I just created redirects from common names of various Messier objects to their respective Wikipedia articles. The Wikipedia articles have also been updated to include those names. I have checked the common names on Google, and they all seem to be valid. Hypersolmeteor (talk) 09:21, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do people think it would make sense to put the angular size (Apparent dimensions) in consistent units so it is easily sortable. I think arcminutes would make the most sense. Jonathan Keohane (talk) 22:50, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There appears to be nearly identical content: "Nicolas Camille Flammarion in 1921...". I don't see a need for this. Facts707 (talk) 07:57, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]