More Messier related Internet Resources (original) (raw)

Some links can also be found on our homepage.

Several of these sites have generously contributedphotographs and/or other materials to our database (these are marked with a "*" and linked to an image index whenever I have already found the time to provide one; please notify me if I left out someone).

• Our collection of Messier Object Observations, including Mel Bartels' Messier Object Observations and Sketches of all Messier objects by Larry and Suzanne McHenry.
• Chris Randall of theJSC Astronomical Society offers drawings of all 110 Messier objects
• Tim Harris' Messier hunt (descriptions, CCD images and drawings)
• Chris Lasley's Messier Archive
• A Monthly Messier list is contained in the Monthly Observing List Collection ofTAC (The Astronomy Connection; based on Tony Cecce's Twelve Month Tour of the Messier Catalog)
• Messier stuff and Binocular Messier Club of the Astronomical League
• Interactive star charts for Messier Objects as well as Herschel 400 and Caldwell Objects, with downloadable catalogs, interactive charts, and more, by Jim Cornmell - Messier catalog entry point
• Image Galleries:
  • Manchester Astronomical Society Messier Album *
  • Bill Keel's Messier Picture Gallery at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa*
  • The ING Collection of Messier Objects *
  • Univ. of Oregon Galaxy Gallery: Messier Objects *
  • Dead Link! Catania Observatory (Italy) Messier object gallery *
  • Multiwavelength Messier Museum - from SIRTF Education & Outreach at Caltech
  • Dead Link! Rick Coleman's Messier object astrophotos
  • Some French Messier Object Images (skylink)
  • Pedro Re'sMessier gallery (the complete catalog)
  • Rory Barnes' Messier Object CCD Images (61/110) - [Arizona copy] *
  • Tim Hunter's and James McGaha's Grasslands Observatory Messier Object photos; 3towers and Grasslands Observatory Messier Object images; Photographic Messier Marathon 1988 (all objects, most several times)*
  • Dead Link! Richard Robinson's Messier Objects Images *
  • Roy Uyematsu'sCCD images of Messier objects *
  • The Messier Catalogue Astrophotographs and CCD Images by Jan Wisniewski. Photo of all 110 objects.*
  • Jay Wrathall's Messier Object photos (complete catalog) - Jay's Messier Object Image Collection (great images from throughout the world)
  • Messier Object images from the Kuhn Telescope of the Orange County Astronomers*
  • Dead Link! Messier object image collection at UCSB
  • Tim Harris' Messier hunt (descriptions, CCD images and drawings)
  • Kopernik Observatory's Pictures of Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters (they have M102/NGC 5866 elsewhere)
  • 2MASS Atlas Messier Catalog: Messier Object Images from the Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC*
  • Messier Object Images from the NGC/IC project (from Digital Sky Survey, processed by Bob Erdmann)
  • Mikkel Steine's Messier Gallery (mostly from the Digital Sky Survey)
  • Dead Link! Niels Zagers' Messier picture gallery (collection) and database (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  • Dead Link! Astrophotography Mailing List (APML) Messier Object Images collection (contributed by APML list members)
  • Amateur Images of Messier Objects, collection from our contributors' images (compiled at SEDS)
• Messier page of the Hawaii Astronomical Society'sDeepsky Atlas
• Stargazers Online Guide to the Messier Marathon, by Richard Bell
• Messier Object Astronomy Pictures of the Day from NASA's Astronomy Pictures of the Day (APOD)
• APOD's own Messier Objects from the Subject Sorted Archive (old) and pictorial Messier Object index
• Yahoo's Messier Objects link page
• "Messier" links from search machines:Yahoo,Lycos,Google
• The Observatories' Messier Object Images; indices of their Messier pictures
• Messier object informations and images on theSEDS FTP server
• Messier's Greatest Hits: framed images and information on the 30+ "top" Messier objects, by Cliff Landesman
• Messier object images are included in the collections at many Deep Sky Image sites
• Some dead links (help recover!):
  • TIE Program Messier Gallery (JPL)
  • Fredi de Maria's Messier pages with images; also inItalian language
  • Index for the (SEDS) Messier Catalog images by John W. Burton
  • Catania Observatory (Italy) Messier object gallery

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