Certificates of Record of Achievement awarded to top 5 and all ties. The Messier Plus was not intended to be difficult like the Messier list as early setter and late rise type objects were not included. In addition M40 and M73 were dropped to make list more enjoyable. Constellation abbreviations are the IAU standard. Columns with no entries indicate no data available.
Sizes are in arc minutes, unless noted otherwise.
57 06.6 14.5 Somewhat loose struct. Of course, the best observing sequence and relative event times are location and date dependent. Time brackets are for first and last event in each section.