Friday, October 15, 2021

The Messier Catalog

I don't know about you, but I finally kept a New Year's resolution. What was it? To use my Unistellar eVscope to observe and photograph all 110 objects of the Messier Catalog. Yes, I know some people do Messier marathons and catch them all in just one evening, but it takes time if you want to take a photograph each and every one of them. Besides, I do like to sleep. 

I caught my first Messier object this year, the famous Orion Nebula (M42), on January 3rd. The last one that I observed was on October 9th: the galaxy known as M77.

I will certainly be revisiting each and everyone of these objects in the future (especially since I'll will soon have the eVscope2), but for your visual enjoyment here are a few mosaics of the objects of the Messier Catalog.

Messier 1 through 20: 

Messier 21 - 40:

Messier 41 - 60:

Messier 61- 80:

Messier 81 - 100:

 and finally Messier 101 - 110:

I've previously blogged about the globular star clusters and the nebulae of the Messier Catalog and I've still got a few things left to say about the whole thing, but I'll save those thoughts for another time.




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2 comments:

  1. UnknownOctober 28, 2021 at 8:47 AM

    Cheers for this wonderfull achievement.

    On my side I am trying to do the same BUT still missing three Messier objects M 68, M83 and M74.
    I also started to do the same with Caldwell Object with some 20 of northern hemisphere still missing.
    I am living in Normandy where sky is not so often clear enough but I did also many observations in Nantes and in the French Alps in the small village of Corrençon in Vercors

    Paul

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  2. AlexNovember 8, 2021 at 1:10 PM

    J'aimerais savoir si la vitesse du eVscope2 est la mêmeou supérieure que celle du eVscope1. Sur les descriptifs c'est pas noté. J'hésite d'acheter le eVscope2. Merci d'avance. Alex

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