Messier Image List

Messier Image List

March 7, 2008

The mission at hand... To gather images of all 110 Messier objects in one night.

Taken with an SBig ST10 on a Takahashi FS152.

Did I make it? Not quite, 93/110 items for 84.5%. Some of the images have soft focus as I ran into some trouble with focuser travel. I quit imaging around 6:00am, having taken my first image around 7:00pm the previous night for 11 straight hours of imaging. High thin clouds came in a little before 6:00am, you can see these in my last image, m57. I don't know that any of these images will win an award, but I had fun doing it, and maybe next year I'll get them all.

Update June 13, 2008 - Due to the focusing issues, I have decided to gradually update images with new versions that have better focus as I have time to go out to the observatory.

(a + indicates there is a image, a -, no image and a * indicates an updated image)

M77 (NGC1068) +

M31 (Andromeda Galaxy) +

M110 (NGC205) +

M52 (NGC7654) +

M103 (NGC581) +

M34 (NGC1039) +

M45 (Pleiades) +

M79 (NGC1904) +

M42 (Orion Nebula) *

M43 (NGC1982) +

M78 (NGC2068) +

M1 (Crab Nebula) +

M35 (NGC2168) +

M37 (NGC2099) +

M36 (NGC1960) +

M38 (NGC1912) +

M41 (NGC2287) +

M50 (NGC2323) +

M47 (NGC2422) +

M46 (NGC2437) +

M93 (NGC2447) +

M48 (NGC2548) *

M44 (Beehive) +

M67 (NGC2682) +

M81 (NGC3031) +

M82 (NGC3034) +

M108 (NGC3556) +

M97† (NGC3587) *

M109 (NGC3992) +

M106 (NGC4258) +

M95 (NGC3351) +

M96 (NGC3368) +

M105 (NGC3379) +

M65 (NGC3623) +

M66 (NGC3627) +

M101 (NGC5457) +

M51† (Whirlpool Galaxy) *

M63 (NGC5055) *

M94 (NGC4736) +

M53 (NGC5024) *

M64 (NGC4826) +

M60 (NGC4649) +

M59 (NGC4621) +

M58 (NGC4579) +

M89 (NGC4552) +

M90 (NGC4569) +

M88 (NGC4501) +

M91 (NGC4548) +

M87 (NGC4486) +

M86 (NGC4406) +

M84 (NGC4374) +

M100 (NGC4321) +

M85 (NGC4382) +

M98 (NGC4192) +

M99 (NGC4254) +

M49 (NGC4472) +

M61 (NGC4303) +

M104 (NGC4594) +

M68 (NGC4590) +

M83 (NGC5236) +

M102 (NGC5866) +

M13†† (Hercules Globular Cluster) *

M92 (NGC6341) +

M12 (NGC6218) +

M10 (NGC6254) +

M14 (NGC6402) +

M107 (NGC6171) +

M80 (NGC6093) +

M19 (NGC6273) +

M62 (NGC6266) +

M20 (NGC6514) +

M21 (NGC6531) +

M23 (NGC6494) +

M18 (NGC6613) +

M17 (NGC6618) +

M16 (NGC6611) +

M11 (Wild Duck Cluster) +

M26 (NGC6694) +

M22 (NGC6656) +

M28 (NGC6626) +

M69 (NGC6637) -

M70 (NGC6681) -

M57 (Ring Nebula) +

M56 (NGC6779) -

M29 (NGC6913) -

M39 (NGC7092) -

M71 (NGC6838) -

M27 (Dumbbell Nebula) -

M54 (NGC6715) -

M55 (NGC6809) -

M15 (NGC7078) -

M75 (NGC6864) -

M72 (NGC6981) -

M73 (NGC6994) -

M30 (NGC7099) -

†† =NM Skies † =C14