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Glenn Spiegelman - Messier Objects

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From 1758-1782, the French Astronomer Charles Messier was able to catalog 110 deep-sky ‘fuzzies’ -- the clusters, nebulae, and constellations that we all now refer to as the Messier Objects. It is my intent to have imaged all of the objects in that catalog. I’m not quite there yet, but making progress.

The Crab Nebula
M1		 M2
M2		 M3
M3		 M4
M4		 M5
M5
    The Lagoon Nebula
M8		 M9
M9		 M10
M10
The Wild Duck Cluster
M11		 M12
M12		 M13
M13		 M14
M14		 M8
M15
The Eagle Nebula
M16		 The Swan Nebula, also called the Omega Nebula
M17		     The Trifid Nebua
M20
The central portion of this image is M21, an Open Cluster in Sagittarius. But, the lower portion shows an artifact of wide-field imaging -- that's the Trifid Nebula (M20)
M21		 M22
M22		   The Little Star Cloud
M24		  
M26 
M26		 The Dumbbell Nebula 
M27		 M28 
M28		   M30 
M30
The major feature, M31, is better known as the Andromeda Galaxy. It has two close neighbors, M32 is the round galaxy just below the central core of M31, and companion M110 s the Galaxy above and to the right of its' core 
M31, M32		 M33: Triangulum Galaxy 
M33		 M34 
M34		   M36 
M36
M37 
M37		 M38
M38		 M39 
M39		   M41 
M41
M42 / M43 
M42 / M43		 The Beehive Cluster 
M44 		 The Pleiades 
M45 		 M46 
M46 		  M47 
M47
     M50 
M50		 The Whirlpool Galaxy 
M51 		 M52 
M52 
M53 
M53 		 M54 
M54 		   M56 
M56 		 Ring Nebula 
M57 		  
        M62 
M62 
M63 
M63 		 Black Eye Galaxy 
M64 		 M65 / M66 
M65 / M66 		 M67 
M67 		  
    M71 
M71 		 M72 
M72 		 M73
M73
 
M74 
M74		   Little Dumbbell Nebula 
M76 		 M77 
M77 		  M78 
M78
M79
M79 		 M80 
M80 		 M81 
M81 		 M82 
M82 		  
M84 / M86 
M84 / M86 		   M87 
M87 		 M88 
M88 		  
    M92
M92  		    
M95 
M95 		 M96 
M96 		 Owl Nebula
M97  		    M99 
M99
M100 
M100 		  
M101 		   M103 
M103 		  Sombrerro Galaxy 
M104
M105
M105 		 M106 
M106 		 M107 
M107 		 M108 
M108 		 M109 
M109 
M110 
M110