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

Radio dishes for a teaching radio telescope, portable domes for site characterization at Magdalena Ridge.

Domes and Roll off - the roll off has the C14, the far dome is a 20" Truss dob on an equatorial platform and the near dome is not really used.

Main building and control room. This houses the Tak control room, storage, meeting space, bathrooms and kitchen

C14 Control room

Control computer for the Takahashi FS152.

Control room and workspace in the main building.

Takahashi FS152, the guide scope is a Celestron HD102.

Takahashi FS152

Equipment on Tak TCF-S temperature compensating focuser, SBig Color Filter Wheel 8 and SBig ST10.