Deep Sky Image Sites

Here is the SEDS Messier Pages‘ list of more

interesting internet resources offering collections of beautiful astronomical

images. Find pictures of Messier and other Deep Sky objects there.

More sites with images of Messier objects can also be found in our

Messier Related Internet Sites List.

Also have a look at our Messier Object Photo List in

image icons or in

text mode (including world wide links).

Many of these sites have generously contributed

photographs 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).

Perhaps you are interested in getting deepsky images in non-electronic

form. In this case, the

List of Great Observatories making Astronomical Photographs publicly

available may be a starting point.

• AAO Astrophotos:

  Color images of celestial objects by David Malin

  *

• WIYN Images

  *

• NOAO Image Gallery

  (Kitt Peak [KPNO], CTIO)

  *

• Color astrophotos by Till Credner and Sven Kohle (Bonn/Germany);

  great CCD and film images !

  *

• Nasa UIT page;

  Images from the Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission (STS-35);

  Images from the Astro-2 Space Shuttle mission (STS-67)

  *

• NRAO press release images

  *

• Bill Keel’s

  Astronomy Image collection at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa;

  Messier Picture Gallery,

  (Text);

  Bill Keel’s GIF Images

  *

• University of Oregon Galaxy Gallery (maintained by Greg Bothun);

  Messier Objects

  *

• Bruce Balick’s Planetary Nebula images

  *

• Scott J. Wolk’s

  and Nancy R. Adams’ Deep Sky photos

  *

• University of Bordeaux (France) astronomical image archive,

  maintained by Frank Roussel;

  Space Movie archive

• Grove Creek Observatory (Australia)

  image collection.

  More GCO-images

  are made available by Bill Arnett

  in a

  collection at SEDS

  *

• Pat Murphy’s Astrophoto Collection at NRAO

• Astronomical Picture Of the Day (APOD; by Nasa GSFC);

  Archive

• Astro Image collection at UMASS/FIVE College

• Guide to Stars and Galaxies

  (BTL Publications Ltd.)

• The Hawaii Astronomical Society‘s

  Deepsky Atlas

• Mikkel Steine’s Catalog

  Collection (images mostly from the Digital Sky Survey):

  • Messier Catalog
  • Herschel 400 Gallery

  • List Generator for various catalogs, by object type

• SEDS’ deepsky image archive

  *

• Digital Sky Survey:

  Load down a (b/w) image you specify from the Digital Sky Survey (POSS +

  ESO/UKS extension).

  Bill Arnett has collected images

  of the Messier objects from the DSS.

• ? defunct ?

  Finder Charts

  from the POSS I catalog, APS project of the UMN;

  APS Home Page

For images from the Hubble Space Telescope, look near the bottom of our

HST and Messier page.

*

Amateur images

mostly listed in hopefully alphabetic order

• Howard C. Anderson‘s

  astrophotos

• Rory Barnes’ CCD Images;

  Messier Objects (61/110);

  NGC Objects (65/7840)

• Mel Bartels

  presents some of his

  astrophotos,

  ccd images,

  and

  eypiece drawings from visual observations online (also look at

  his visual Messier Object descriptions).

• Steve Bell’s Astrophotos

  *

• Rick Coleman’s Astrophotos
• Russ Dickman’s astrophotos
• Martin Germano’s Astrophotos

  *

• George Greaney’s Astrophotos

  *

• Jeff MacQuarrie’s astrophotos (including many deepsky objects)

  *

• Park McGraw’s Astrophotos

  *

• Images from the Night Sky by William McLaughlin

  *

• Jack Newton’s photos;

  mirror at SEDS;

  Jack Newton Image Gallery (by Doug Clapp)

  *

• Dave Palmer‘s

  Astronomy images page (really beautiful images)

• J. Parker’s

  Astronomical Images Archive

• Robert Provin’s and Brad Wallis’

  collection of amateur astrophotos

  *

• Tim Puckett’s Astrophoto Homepage

  *

• Michael Purcell‘s CCD image collection

  *

• Pedro Re‘s

  Deep Sky CCD Atlas

• Jack Schmidling has a

  nice collection of

  astrophotos and offers an

  Astrophoto of the Week

  each week. Also note his

  Photo Index

• John Sefick‘s

  collection of CCD images (with a 25-inch Newtonian and ST6 CCD camera)

  *

• Ingrid Siegert‘s

  astrophotos

• Andy Steere‘s

  astrophoto page

  *

• CCD image collection of the

  “

  Sternfreunde Breisgau e.V.” (Freiburg/Germany),

  provided by Peter Suetterlin

  [german]

  *

• Jeff Stys‘ astrophotos

  *

• Luc Vanhoeck‘s astrophoto page

• Chuck Vaughn‘s astrophotos
• Jason Ware’s photos; Jason also

  offers them for sale at very reasonable prices as prints and slides: you may

  order from his pages

  *

• Jan Wisniewski’s Deep Sky

  CCD Imaging and Astrophotography

  *

• University of Arizona Astronomy Club CCD Gallery.

  *

• Astronomical images

  obtained by members of the

  “Interessengemeinschaft Astronomie” (University of Constance, Germany)

  *

• CCD images of French amateurs Michel Peyro, Jean-Philippe Barrilliot,

  and Franck Lefevre of the Observatoire Astronomique; note the

  Eliza gallery

  with some of their best images

  *

• Armagh Planetarium Staff CCD images

• Rick Bright’s Collection of Amateur Astrophoto pages

  [framed]

Deepsky Image Index pages

• Pretty pictures

  link index from the NRAO

• Ed Gaudet’s Athena Web Astronomy links

• Astronomical Image Library

  (www.syz.com)

• Index of Servers with Astronomical Images (STScI)

• Index of Servers with Astronomical Images (CERN)

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Hartmut Frommert

([email protected])

Christine Kronberg

([email protected])

Last Modification: 24 Feb 1999, 18:30 MET