King Louis XV of France dubbed Charles Messier the Comet Ferret

By Sky Watch with Col Maybury
March 20 2015 - 2:13pm
OOPS:  Messier’s  misses.
OOPS: Messier’s misses.

What superb irony that one of the great comet discoverers of all time is now remembered for his catalogue of objects that were not comets.

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