Melotte catalogue
Catalogue of 245 star clusters compiled By British astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte
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The Melotte catalogue is a catalogue of 245 star clusters compiled by British astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte. It was published in 1915 as A Catalogue of Star Clusters shown on Franklin-Adams Chart Plates.[1] Catalogue objects are denoted by Melotte, e.g. "Melotte 20". Dated prefixes include as Mel + catalogue number, e.g. "Mel 20".[2]
Melotte 20, an open cluster in the constellation Perseus that was first catalogued by Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1915. | |
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The catalogue contains 161 open clusters, 81 globular clusters, two asterisms, and one galaxy.
Melotte objects
Errors
There are some errors in Melotte's list:
- Mel 28 and 29 are asterisms.
- The elliptical or lenticular galaxy Mel 57 was mistaken for a globular cluster.
See also
- List of astronomical catalogues
- Collinder catalogue - a similar catalogue of open star clusters published by Per Collinder in 1931.
- Trumpler catalogue - a similar catalogue of open star clusters published by Robert Julius Trumpler in 1930.