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Charles Messier （French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817） was a French astronomer.
He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and faint star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects.
Messier's purpose for the catalogue was to help astronomical observers distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky.
Messier was born in Badonviller in the Lorraine region of France, the tenth of twelve children of Françoise B. Grandblaise and Nicolas Messier, a Court usher.
Six of his brothers and sisters died while young, and his father died in 1741.
Charles' interest in astronomy was stimulated by the appearance of the great six-tailed comet in 1744 and by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown on 25 July 1748.
In 1751, Messier entered the employ of Joseph Nicolas Delisle, the astronomer of the French Navy, who instructed him to keep careful records of his observations.
Messier's first documented observation was that of the Mercury transit of 6 May 1753, followed by his observations journals at Cluny Hotel and at the French Navy observatories.
In 1764, Messier was made a fellow of the Royal Society; in 1769, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; and on 30 June 1770, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences.
Messier discovered 13 comets: Messier's grave in Père Lachaise He also co-discovered Comet C/1801 N1, a discovery shared with several other observers including Pons, Méchain, and Bouvard.
（Comet Pons-Messier-Méchain-Bouvard） Near the end of his life, Messier self-published a booklet connecti...