Charles Messier, born 1730, was a French astronomer who is most famous for publishing an astronomical catalogue, the "Messier Catalogue", consisting of 110 nebulae and faint star clusters, which became known as Messier objects.
He also discovered 13 comets:
- C/1760 B1 (Messier) c/2760
- C/1763 S1 (Messier)
- C/1764 A1 (Messier)
- C/1766 E1 (Messier)
- C/1769 P1 (Messier)
- D/1770 L1 (Lexell)
- C/1771 G1 (Messier)
- C/1773 T1 (Messier)
- C/1780 U2 (Messier)
- C/1788 W1 (Messier)
- C/1793 S2 (Messier)
- C/1798 G1 (Messier)
- C/1785 A1 (Messier-Méchain)