Messier deep space objects

Thanks to H. S. Teoh who arranged the Messier objects list by object type: nebulae, galaxies, clusters, and other kinds of objects not under any major category.

SEDS Messier home page
SEDS numerically sorted list of the Messier objects
Messier CCD Gallery

Click or select any one of the Messier objects below for more information.

Nebulae:

Supernova Remnants
- M1: The Crab Nebula
Planetary nebulae:
Diffuse nebulae:
- M8: Diffuse nebula (+ open cluster): The Lagoon Nebula
- M17: The Omega Nebula (also: The Swan, Horseshoe, or Lobster Nebula)
- M20: The Trifid Nebula
- M42: The Orion Nebula
- M43: Part of the Orion Nebula (de Mairan's Nebula)
- M78 (a diffuse reflection nebula)

Galaxies:

Spiral galaxies:
- M31: The Andromeda Galaxy (type Sb)
- M33: The Triangulum Galaxy (also: Pinwheel Galaxy; type Sc)
- M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy (type Sc)
- M58 (type Sb/SBb or Sab(s)II)
- M61 (type Sc, or SAB(rs)bc)
- M63: The Sunflower Galaxy (type Sb or Sbc)
- M64: The Blackeye Galaxy (type Sb or Sab)
- M65
- M66
- M74
- M77 (type Sb, a Seyfert 2 galaxy)
- M81 Bode's Galaxy (or Bode's Nebula, type Sb)
- M83
- M88
- M90
- M91
- M94
- M95
- M96
- M98
- M99
- M100
- M101: The Pinwheel Galaxy (M102 may be the same galaxy -- an error by Messier or Mechain ?)
- M104: The Sombrero Galaxy (type Sa)
- M106
- M108
- M109
Elliptical and S0 galaxies:
- M32: Satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31
- M49
- M59
- M60
- M84
- M85
- M86
- M87: Virgo A, the central galaxy in the Virgo cluster
- M89
- M102 may be the Spindle Galaxy NGC 5866
- M105
- M110: Satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy, M31
Irregular Galaxies:
- M82

Clusters:

Globular clusters:
- M2
- M3
- M4
- M5
- M9
- M10
- M12
- M13: Great Hercules Globular Cluster
- M14
- M15
- M19
- M22
- M28
- M30
- M53
- M54
- M55
- M56
- M62
- M68
- M69
- M70
- M71
- M72
- M75
- M79
- M80
- M92
- M107
Open clusters:
- M6: The Butterfly Cluster
- M7: Ptolemy's Cluster
- M11: The Wild Duck Cluster
- M16: Cluster associated with the Eagle or Star Queen Nebula IC 4703
- M18
- M21
- M23
- M25
- M26
- M29
- M34
- M35
- M36
- M37
- M38
- M39
- M41
- M44: Praesepe, the Beehive Cluster
- M45: Subaru, the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters)
- M46
- M47
- M48
- M50
- M52
- M67
- M93
- M103

Others:

M24: Milky Way Patch (star cloud, `Delle Caustiche') containing open cluster NGC 6603
M40: Double Star, Winnecke 4 (WNC 4)
M73: System or Asterism of 4 Stars