Messier Objects

Charles Messier - a comet hunter of the 18th century catalogued 110 objects that could be confused with comets. Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Messier .

I highly recommend a book on Charles Messier and the creation of this catalogue - Atlas of Messier Objects, 2008 by Ronald Stoyan.

Note: This gallery should be automatically sorted by Messier #.

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Messier M61 - NGC4303 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Virgo - 3/5/2013 (Processed stack)

DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 85% of 16 Images ISO 800 120 Sec, 32 DARK, 75 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5

Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 13C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider flashed as QHY5 and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.

Messier M61 Barred Spiral Galaxy in Virgo NGC NGC4303 M61 Barred Spiral Galaxy in Virgo Galaxy NGC4289 NGC4292 NGC4255 NGC4324 NGC4300 NGC4287 NGC4282 NGC4281 NGC4277 NGC4273 NGC4270 NGC4266 NGC4268 NGC4259