The hottest Messier stuff available

Most recent hots:

The Messier pages have a new official co-author:
Christine Kronberg !

A cordial and warm welcome, Chris !

Chris has closely collaborated with me (hf) since early 1996, and

contributed continuously and significantly to this service; see our

creation page for more details.
Supernova 1998bu in M96 !
New more beautiful scans of
David Malin’s images

(note these are copyrighted):

M1,

M5,

M8,

M11,

M16 (full view),

M16 (central part),

M17,

M20 (full view),

M20 (deep image),

M27,

M31,

M33,

M42,

M43,

M45,

M65,

M66,

M83,

M87,

M84 & M86,

M87 and Markarian’s Chain,

M95,

M100,

M104.
Identify galaxies in the heart
of the Virgo cluster interactively
Current Month’s Messier Tour
(Tony Cecce)
An upcoming conference is devoted solely to one Messier object, the
interesting spiral (and Seyfert II) galaxy M77:

The NGC 1068 Workshop
The Hodierna Catalog could be
significantly revised and improved thanks to the help of

Fredi De Maria of the

ORSA, Palermo, Italy.
Biography of W. Tempel, including his
drawing of the Merope Nebula in the Pleiades,

made available online by

Leos Ondra
Hubble Views the Hourglass Nebula in the
Lagoon Nebula M8
HST images of the Trapezium Cluster
in the Orion Nebula M42
Screen sized HST images of M16
(suitable as backgrounds for your computer screen)

Hot options in our Messier pages

Messier’s Original
Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters

online
The Messier Marathon !
Marathon Results ..
Top Ten Messier Objects of last month
Tony Cecce’s Twelve Month Tour
of the Messier Catalog
Historic materials on and related
to Charles Messier;

History of Deepsky Discovery
Messier 102: An article on its identification
Historical Deep Sky Object List:
All 152 Deep Sky Objects known before September 1782, when William

Herschel started his extensive survey
Dave Nash has created
Virtual Messier,

a graphical interface to access our Messier Catalog database
The Hubble Space Telescope and the
Messier Objects
Animations related to the Messier objects
Questions and Answers on Messier and his catalog

Outside North America, you may have faster access to our pages through one of

our Mirror Sites. Moreover, there is a

German version of the Messier

pages, created and maintained by

Image Quick-Browser;
Quick-access Icon Sheet;

Messier poster (195k gif) of this sheet.
Messier Object Photo List in
image icons or in

text mode

(partly outdated)
Leos Ondra has agreed
that we

have his articles on globular

cluster M5,

planetary nebula Pease 1 in

M15,

and his Biography of Wilhelm Tempel, the

discoverer of the Merope Nebula in the Pleiades,

here, thanks !

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