> There was once a catalog of nebula called Messier Hah, I'd sort of known what the Messier catalog was, but you inspired me to look at its Wikipedia page[1].

> There was once a catalog of nebula called Messier Hah, I'd sort of known what the Messier catalog was, but you inspired me to look at its Wikipedia page[1]. Apparently Charles Messier was looking for comets, and was tired of getting distracted by things that weren't comets. M1 is the Crab Nebula[2]. This amuses me. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_object [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messier_objects http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Messier_objects