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Messier lived and did his astronomical work at the Hotel de Cluny, in France in the Earth's northern hemisphere.
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However, Charles Messier did not include the Hyades in his 1781 catalog of deep sky objects.
Whereas the amateur astronomer of the 1970s and 1980s typically did not explore much beyond the Messier and brighter NGC objects, the amateur astronomer of today can routinely observe objects in the IC, Abell, Perek Kohoutek, Minkowski and other obscure catalogues once considered the domain of professional astronomers, thanks in part to Dobsonians.
Messier had wanted to finish his career with the Rangers, but Dave Checketts, the president of Madison Square Garden, said the team did not think Messier was worth $ 20 million USD for the next three years, though Messier maintained that he would have signed a one-year contract extension for under $ 6 million a season.
It was an emotional and high-profile move, with Messier returning to Canada after six years with the Rangers, but the honeymoon did not last.
Before the season started, captain Trevor Linden willingly relinquished the captaincy to Messier, a move that did not go well with Canuck supporters as Linden was a fan favorite.
However, he did not play in the 1991 edition, despite attempts by Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier to persuade him to take part.
Messier and astronomical
The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771.
Many of the brighter astronomical objects, such as the star clusters, nebulae and galaxies listed in the Messier Catalog, and other objects of eighth magnitude and brighter are readily viewed in hand-held binoculars in the 35 to 40 mm range, such as are found in many households for birding, hunting, and viewing sports events.
* 1771 – Charles Messier: Publishes catalogue of astronomical objects ( Messier Objects ) now known to include galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae.
However, William Henry Smyth accidentally attributed the discovery to Pierre Méchain in his popular 19th century astronomical work A Cycle of Celestial Objects ( stating " They and M66 were pointed out by Méchain to Messier in 1780 ").
Messier 77 is an active galaxy with an Active Galactic Nucleus ( AGN ), which is obscured from view by astronomical dust at visible wavelengths.
Messier and work
Messier then relocated to New York City to work as a business consultant.
In addition to building aircraft, other wartime work included the manufacture of both Dowty and Messier undercarriages, automatic pilot units, searchlights and radar equipment.
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Madison Square Garden photographer George Kalinsky's image of Gretzky waving to the crowd at the Garden, like his image of Messier after the Rangers won game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals five years earlier, would become an iconic image to the Rangers and their fans, documenting one of the greatest moments at the Garden, and even to hockey fans.
* October 13 – French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy, an interacting, grand-design spiral galaxy located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.
Lengths with order of magnitude 1e17m: yellow Vernal Point arrow traces hundred light year radius circle with smaller ten light year circle at right ; globular cluster Messier 5 in background ; 12 light year radius Orion Nebula middle right ; 50 light year wide view of the Carina Nebula bottom left ; Pleiades cluster and Bubble nebula with similar diameters each around 10 light years bottom right ; grey arrows show distances from Sun to stars Aldebaran ( 65 light years ) and Vega ( 25 light years ).
Lengths with order of magnitude 1e18m: thousand light year radius circle with yellow arrow and 100 light year circle at right with globular cluster Messier 5 within and Carina Nebula in front ; globular cluster Omega Centauri to left of both ; part of the 1400 light year wide Tarantula Nebula fills the background.
Oilers players such as Gretzky and Mark Messier said that they realized at that moment how much it would actually take to win the Stanley Cup.
The series headed back to the Meadowlands for the sixth game, in which Messier scored three times in the final period to lead the Rangers to a 4 – 2 win and set up a seventh game back at Madison Square Garden.
During this season, Gretzky, Messier, Anderson, and Kurri all topped the 100 point plateau, with Coffey not far behind at 96.
Mark Messier retired only 11 NHL games behind Howe at 1, 756 ( and counting minor league action and playoffs, 2, 048 total professional games ), but this is over five seasons away from 2, 478 total professional games ( including minor league action ), almost a thousand games ahead of the active career leader at the end of 2012 ( Roman Hamrlik ).
Messier 100 is considered an starburst galaxy, with it concentrated within a ring-actually two tightly wound spiral arms attached to a small nuclear bar with a radius of 1 kilo-parsec -, where star formation has been taking place since at least 500 million years ago in separate bursts.
Such jets, the nearest being in Messier 87, have been confirmed by the Hubble telescope as apparently superluminal, travelling at 6 × c ( six times the speed of light ) from our planetary frame.
Image: VISTA infrared Orion Nebula. jpg | This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula ( Messier 42 ), was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO ’ s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
In particular, M81, M82, M52, and M103 make southern-hemisphere Messier marathons difficult because they are all located at a declination of 60 ° north or greater.
In particular, a latitude of around 25 ° north lends the best possibility to complete a Messier marathon at the right time of year.
Less complete Messier Marathons can be undertaken at other times of the year, with the actual percentage of Messier objects seen depending upon season and location.
Typically an observer attempting a Messier marathon begins observing at sundown and will observe through the night until sunrise in order to see all 110 objects.
* Spiral Galaxy Messier 83 at the astro-photography site of Mr. Takayuki Yoshida.
The Dumbbell Nebula ( also known as Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, M 27, or NGC 6853 ) is a planetary nebula ( PN ) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1, 360 light years.
Messier was a controversial figure in France at the time, due to the perception that he was abandoning his French roots in favour of Americanization.
After studying at the École Polytechnique from 1976 to 1980, and then at the École nationale d ' administration between 1980 and 1982, Messier held several posts at the French Economy Ministry, including a post as technical counseler for privatization under Edouard Balladur, during the 1980s, before moving to investment bank Lazard Freres in 1989.
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In the modified Hubble sequence galaxy morphological classification scheme of French astronomer Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Messier 87 is categorized as an E0p galaxy.
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* Industry leaders: Michel Bon ( former CEO of Carrefour and France Telecom ), Jean-Marie Messier, Ernest-Antoine Seillière, Louis Schweitzer, Gérard Mestrallet, Louis Gallois, Henri de Castries, Baudouin Prot, Frederic Oudéa, Bruno Lafont, Frédéric Lemoine, Pierre-André de Chalendar ( CEO of Saint-Gobain ).
At the death of Valleran, the troupe was headed by the actor Bellerose ( Pierre Le Messier ), and the troupe would gain exclusive rights to the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1629.
The Eagle Nebula ( catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611 ) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46.
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* The Omega Nebula, Messier 25, Messier 35, and IC 4665 are discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux.
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He independently discovered four others, originally discovered by someone else but unknown to him at the time and included in the Messier catalog: M71, discovered by Philippe de Cheseaux in the 1740s ; M80, discovered by Messier about two weeks earlier than Méchain's observation ; and M81 and M82, discovered originally by Johann Bode.
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