Talk:Messier object

Edward Young Star is not an official name for M110
Someone would remember the amateur astronomer Edward Young from Bristol, UK by naming M100 in his honour after he passed away.

In March 2014 the Messier 110 article was edited by adding the name Edward Young Star to the object which was not edited back for several months. That led to the name be listed on several Messier lists on the internet as the name of M110.

It has been changed several times since but every time edited back because there are no official list from scientific or other organisations or articles using the name.

So I remove it from this article for now untill it appears official in the Messier 110 article.

Agerskov (talk) 07:50, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Apparent Dimension missing after M34!
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)
 * Shock! Horror! Amazement!
 * Clearly no one has yet to add them to the table. Feel free. Primefac (talk) 08:56, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I just filled in the apparent dimension numbers based on objects' individual pages. So much fun! :) Assambrew (talk) 01:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

"Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula" as name for M78
No source has been given for this rather incongruous name. From what I can tell, M78 only seems to be known as "Casper the Friendly Ghost" among hobbyist astronomers; this name appears to have been popularised by Stellarium (software). Stellarium's source code gives the source for this name as "The 500 Best Deep Sky Objects' by Don Pensack", linking to this 2014 Cloudy Nights thread, with a list posted by Cloudy Nights user Stargeezer. The list itself does not provide any source of its own for the name, and the earliest mention of the name I could find using https://www.oldestsearch.com/ was from the same user in this earlier Cloudy Nights thread from 2010. As such, the evidence seems to suggest that the name originates with this Cloudy Nights user. I'm unsure what, if anything, would constitute a good source for this name - perhaps Stellarium's use of it is enough? Jan Sitelen (talk) 23:01, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Removed for now. Primefac (talk) 09:38, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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


 * 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)


 * 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)

Common names added
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)