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Description: Messier 3
Discovered 1764 by Charles Messier.
This cluster was the first 'original' discovery by Charles Messier when he logged it on May 3rd, 1764. At that time it was the 76th deep sky object ever observed by human eyes (and apparatus), although at that time, it was only the 55th known nebulous object, while 21 objects had been forgotten again, according to the sources and current knowledge of the present author (see the Deep Sky Object Discovery Table). Perhaps the discovery of this object eventually caused Charles Messier to start a systematical search for these comet resembling objects, and not just catalog chance findings as in the previous cases, M1 and M2. Alternatively, Messier may have started this endeavor due to other reasons, and it was just his first discovery - anyway, the search which started with M3 lead him to catalog the objects up to M40 during this year 1764.
