Thursday, February 11, 2010
I've always been interested in deep sky and distant objects. Probably, the
Pleiades, is the first Messier object I became familiar with. It was around 1990
that I first "found" the Andromeda galaxy (M31) with binoculars. Now
I can easily pick it out with the naked eye.
Increasingly, I'm trying to see more and more of the objects catalogued by
Charles Messier. And perhaps I'll try the famous "marathon," to view
them all in a single evening. But I think, in the meantime, it is a good idea
for me to spot most of them independently.
- M1 - NGC 1952 - Crab Nebula *
- M2 - NGC 7089
- M3 - NGC 5272
- M4 - NGC 6121 - Cat's Eye
- M5 - NGC 5904
- M6 - NGC 6405 - Butterfly Cluster
- M7 - NGC 6475 - Ptolemy's Cluster or Scorpion's Tail
- M8 - NGC 6523 - star cluster and Lagoon Nebula
- M10 - NGC 6254
- M11 - NGC 6707 - Wild Duck Cluster
- M12 - NGC 6218 - Gumball Globular
- M13 - NGC 6205 - Hercules Cluster
- M14 - NGC 6402
- M15 - NGC 7078 - Great Pegasus Cluster
- M16 - NGC 6611 - Eagle Nebula
- M17 - NGC 6618 - Omega Nebula (aka Swan)
- M18 - NGC 6613 - Black Swan
- M20 - NGC 6514 - Trifid Nebula
- M21 - NGC 6531
- M22 - NGC 6656 - Sagittarius Cluster
- M23 - NGC 6494
- M24 - NGC 6603 - Sagittarius Star Cloud
- M25 - IC 4725
- M26 - NGC 6694
- M27 - NGC 6853 - Dumbbell Nebula or Apple Core
- M28 - NGC 6626
- M29 - NGC 6913 - Cooling Tower
- M31 - NGC 224 - Andromeda Galaxy
- M32 - NGC 221 - satellite of Andromeda Galaxy
- M33 - NGC 598 - Triangulum Galaxy or Pinwheel Galaxy
- M35 - NGC 2168
- M36 - NGC 1960 - Pinwheel Cluster
- M37 - NGC 2099 - Auriga Salt-and-Pepper Cluster
- M38 - NGC 1912 - Starfish Cluster
- M39 - NGC 7092
- M42 - NGC 1976 - Great Orion Nebula
- M44 - NGC 2632 - Praesepe / Beehive Cluster
- M45 - NGC 1432 - Pleiades / Subaru
- M50 - NGC 2323 *
- M51 - NGC 5194 and NGC 5195 - Whirlpool Galaxy
- M52 - NGC 7654 - The Scorpion
- M53 - NGC 5024
- M54 - NGC 6715
- M55 - NGC 6809
- M56 - NGC 6779
- M57 - NGC 6720 - Ring Nebula
- M64 - NGC 4826 - Black Eye Galaxy (confirmed)
- M67 - NGC 2682 - King Cobra
- M69 - NGC 6637
- M71 - NGC 6838
- M72 - NGC 6981
- M73 - NGC 6994
- M76 - NGC 650 and NGC 651 - Little Dumbbell
- M80 - NGC 6093
- M81 - NGC 3031 - Bode's Galaxy
- M82 - NGC 3034 - Cigar Galaxy
- M92 - NGC 6341
- M97 - NGC 3587 - Owl Nebula
- M101 - NGC 5457 - Pinwheel Galaxy
- M103 - NGC 581
- M107 - NGC 6171
* To be revisited, so to confirm details, perhaps sketch.
That's 61 so far.
Maybe, one day, I'll have my own photographs here...
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