The Melotte catalogue is a catalogue of 245 star clusters compiled by British astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte.
It was published in 1915 as A Catalogue of Star Clusters shown on Franklin-Adams Chart Plates.
Dated prefixes include as Mel + catalogue number, e.g. "Mel 20".
[2] The catalogue contains 161 open clusters, 81 globular clusters, two asterisms, and one galaxy.
There are some errors in Melotte's list: