Talk:List of Messier objects

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[edit] Bad external link

I removed this link that was posted by an anonymous user: Messier Catalogue Interactive map. If you look through the information on the website, you will find many errors. Among these (in general terms):

  • The NGC numbers of the Messier objects are incorrect.
  • The distances are grossly incorrect. (The Whirlpool Galaxy is not at a distance of 7 light years.)
  • The Hubble types of galaxies are written incorrectly.
  • The classifications for other things are obscure at best. (The Ring Nebula is classified as "IV (III)".)

This website is so misinformative that it should be kept off Wikipedia until it is fixed. GeorgeJBendo 15:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Source of magnitudes

I like the the color coding of the table. Could a source be given for the magnitudes, however? They seem consistently higher (fainter) than values one sees quoted elsewhere. Are they from an old book? It is my impression that magnitudes assigned to Messier objects have gone down over the years, possibly due to changes in technology. BodachMor 15:07, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Completing the thumbnail pics

The intro to the article has a poster-size graphic of all Messier objects. Can we use this as a source, chop it up, and create thumbnails for the remaining objects that currently have no associated picture?

I'd be willing to do the work to finish out the list, but I didn't know if this is allowed by copyright, etc. BradC 22:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RA/Dec

This table is great! Can we also add a column describing the RA/Dec too? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.48.196.9 (talk) 22:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

That could probably be done. I see a few things in the table that could use clean-up. Maybe a general discussion on the format is needed before making changes. Dr. Submillimeter 22:34, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thumbnails

List now has thumbnails for all the objects, but some of the articles don't include the pictures. That needs tidying up. Also, some of the pictures are, frankly, not the best available, could use cropping, etc. Could we take a more systematic approach to getting nice pictures of the Messier objects? Carcharoth 17:36, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table

Although dividing the tables into many parts can let people easily searching and seeing the name of column, combining them into one with 110 rows can make people using the wiki-sort to find out some extreme data and some ranking.--Prince Max 12:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)