M98 M98 was learned in 1781 by Pierre Méchain, a colleague of Charles Messier, and is among the faintest objects in Messier’s catalog. It has a magnitude of ten.1, and observers will need at least a medium-sized telescope to check out M98 nicely. The ideal time to look at this galaxy is in Might.Why repeat the same path for every stage? GibbsCAM