The original SEDS Messier Catalog online database has its home on the machine of SEDS (http://www.seds.org/), the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space at the University of Arizona:

URL: http://www.seds.org/messier/ Maintainer: Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org) Host: SEDS (SEDS, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona)

Mirrors and other language sites

• Munich Astronomical Archive (partial) mirror:
  

  URL: http://www.maa.mhn.de/Messier/ Maintainer: Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) Host: Munich Astronomical Archive (Munich, Germany)

  Chris also provides a German version (see below)

• The Netherlands mirror:
  Note this site is currently not available!

  URL: http://www.nerdnet.nl/~angelo/phoenix/messier/Messier.html Maintainer: Angelo Lamme (angelo@nerdnet.nl) Host: Phoenix Public Observatory (Lochem, The Netherlands)

• Polish mirror:
  

  URL: http://messier.man.szczecin.pl/ Maintainer: Piotr Wolak (Piotr.Wolak@man.szczecin.pl) Host: Politechnika Szczecinska, Akademickie Centrum Informatyki (Szczecin, Poland)

• French mirror:
  

  URL: http://www.obspm.fr/messier/Messier.html Maintainer: Christian Balança (C.Balanca@obspm.fr) Host: Observatoire de Paris/Meudon (Paris Meudon Observatory, France)

  This site also holds Bernard Trezeguet's French translation of the Messier pages (see below)

• Another French mirror:
  

  URL: http://www.delphes.net/messier/en/ Maintainer: Julien Le Bonheur (orisha99@altern.org) Host: delphes.net, Planetarium of the "Palais de la Decouverte" (Paris, France)

• Japan mirror: in preparation

• German Language Messier Catalog ("Der Messier-Katalog"):
  

  URL: http://www.maa.mhn.de/Messier/D/ Maintainer: Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) Host: Munich Astronomical Archive (Munich, Germany)

• Italian Language Messier Catalog ("Il Catalogo Di Messier"):
  

  URL: http://astrolink.mclink.it/messier/Messier.html Maintainer: Mario Farina (Mario.F@mclink.it) Host: MC Link Astrolink (Italy)

• French Language Messier Catalog ("Le Catalogue De Messier"):
  

  URL: http://www.obspm.fr/messier/Messier_f.html Translator: Bernard Trezeguet (Btrezeguet@aol.com) Maintainer: Christian Balança (C.Balanca@obspm.fr) Host: Observatoire de Paris/Meudon (Paris Meudon Observatory, France)

• Polish Language Messier Catalog ("Katalog Messiera") is in preparation by Piotr Wolak

• Spanish Language Messier Catalog is in preparation by Alex Dantart of AstroRED

• Hebrew Language Messier Catalog is in preparation

• Bahasa Indonesian Language Messier Catalog is in preparation

• Japanese Language Messier Catalog is under consideration

• Italian: Mario Farina
• French: Christian Balança

Important Notice: In addition to our official mirrors and foreign-language sites listed above, an increasing number of "unofficial" mirrors and more or less modified or derived copied websites seems to be around. In some cases, not even hints are given to that they got their materials from us. Up to here, we don't really care about this practice at this time, although we would appreciate it to get notified by the maintainers of these "mirrors" and "derived sites" - they all are invited to become official mirror sites (see above, or email me the relevant data).

Recently, a small but unfortunately increasing number of sites have started to claim false copyrights on stuff originating or obtained from us. We strongly depreciate this practise, state that it is unlawful to claim inappropriate rights on stuff originating from our services (see our usage regulations page), and particularly emphasize that this might cause third-party royalty holders, or at some time even ourselves, to bring serious problems to those falsely claiming any ownership rights on their (the owners') stuff. Concerned parties are requested to remove any false claims of rights.

July 12, 2001
Hartmut Frommert, Maintainer of the Messier pages at SEDS

Last Modification: 12 Jul 2001, 15:30 MET