Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4290  ·  NGC 4335  ·  The star 70UMa
Messier 40, Csere Mihaly
Messier 40
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Messier 40

Messier 40, Csere Mihaly
Messier 40
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Messier 40

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I had to test out something in my equipment, and because of the first quarter moon I have decided to take a picture of something rarely imagined ... Messier 40, considered one of Charles Messier's mistake. Messier was searching for a nebulos object in the area reported by Johann Hevelius and did not found anything so he cataloged this double star as an object. The theory is that bigger objects saw the small galaxy NGC 4290 but Messiers telescope was too small to see it.

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Messier 40, Csere Mihaly