Charles Messier, an avid comet hunter in the middle of the 18th century, often encountered "fuzzy" objects while gazing and perusing the night sky and which he would initially confuse as being comets. During repeat observation on consequent days, he was able to confirm that these fuzzy objects were indeed not comets but some sort of nebulous objects. In order not to repeat these seemingly repetitive mistakes and false alarms, he started maintaining a growing list of these objects along with their location in the sky so as to bypass them in the future while searching for comets. Little did Messier know that these objects, now named in his honour, represent some of the finest objects in the sky and have become an amateur astronomer's treasure chest year after year. Numbering 110 in total, these "fuzzies" represent star clusters (globular and open), supernova remnants, nebulae (dark, planetary, reflection and emission) as well as various galaxies.