Bicentenary of Charles Messier's death - this week!

[JeremyS]

April 2017 marks the bicentenary of the death of Charles Messier, the man whose name is synonymous with many of the best deep-sky objects in the northern sky.

You can see a video of a short on Messier's life given by Dr Stewart Moore at the BAA on this page: https://britastro.org/node/9721

Jeremy

[jambouk]

I'm holding off listing to Stewart's talk as he is coming to the SHA Spring Conference on the 22nd April in Cambridge:

https://societyforthehistoryofastronomy.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/sha-spring-con-april-2017.pdf

James

 

[Knighty2112]

Thanks for the link to the video.  

[goodricke1]

Interesting to find out that he may be somewhat undervalued in France, and perhaps looked down on as a mere recorder of facts as opposed to a theoretician. But his comet discovery feats alone surely mark him out as an observer of the first rank.

[DHEB]

Excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing this video!

[laudropb]

Very nice video Jeremy.