What constellation contains the greatest number of M-objects?

and:

How many objects did Messier actually discover?



I know that there is a 110 list but I doubt that my teacher would be asking that if we knewWhat constellation contains the greatest number of M-objects?Sagittarius with 13. Not too surprising since that's where the core of the galaxy is located.

Virgo has 9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mes鈥?/a>



The actual Messier list is 109, since M102 is a duplicate of M101. NGC-5866 is sometimes is accepted as an alternate to M102.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_102What constellation contains the greatest number of M-objects?The accepted number is 110 - ask Messier - my guess would be that Virgo contains the largest number of such objects - all those galaxiesWhat constellation contains the greatest number of M-objects?Actually Messier's list included 103 objects but 102 is in dispute. The others from M104 to M110 were added by others. Messier didn't discover the Pleiades (M45), Praesepe (M44), or M7 Ptolomey's cluster but he did catalog these and others. See the web page below.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_cat鈥?/a>