In his 1850 paper, Lord Rosse lists 14 "spiral or curvilinear nebulae:" M74 (NGC 628, h 142), M77 (NGC 1068, h 262), NGC 1637 (h 327), NGC 3198 (h 695), M96 (NGC 3368, h 749), NGC 3726 (h 910), NGC 3938 (h 1002), M100 (NGC 4321, h 1211), M88 (NGC 4501, h 1312), M58 (NGC 4579, h 1368), NGC 4725 (h 1451), M63 (NGC 5055, h 1570), NGC 5557 (h 1776), and NGC 7331 (h 2172).

Links

• Drawings of Messier Objects by (or under direction of) Lord Rosse
• William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse images, NGC/IC observers page
• The Great Refractor: The Earl of Rosse and the Leviathan of Parsontown, Lenny Abbey
• Some Lord Rosse info, Yann Pothier

• Birr Castle

• Kenneth Glyn Jones, 1991. Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters. 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, p. 339.