Observations !

Observations !

Descriptions of the Messier objects from observations by astronomers

(mostly amateurs):

• Mel Bartels’ Messier Object Observations.

  Mel has created eyepiece drawings from his visual observations, and

  made some of them

  available online (including the Messier objetcts M57 and M64)

• Don Machholz has estimated visual magnitudes and apparent dimensions

  of all Messier objects;

  look at his list

  (from the Messier Marathon Observer’s Guide)

• Sketches of all Messier objects by Larry and Suzanne McHenry

• Messier object observations

  (sketches and logs) by Chris Randall

• John Blackwell’s sketches of all Messier objects and some of the

  Herschel 400 objects

• Messier object

  observations by Tim Harris;

  Drawings of Clusters,

  Nebulae

  and Galaxies.

• Jeff Medkeff’s sketches of Messier objects

• Messier Object Observations by Dirk Panczyk (in German)

• Messier object visibility in a Meade #395 telescope (3.5-inch refractor)

  by Luis Arguelles

• Bert Dekker’s Sketches of Deep Sky Objects

• Tony Cecce’s

  Twelve Month Tour of the Messier Catalog is based on

  Tony’s Messier Object Observations

• The Messier Marathon

  is a particular (actually an extreme) form of observing them

• Internet Amateur Astro Catalog: A mailing list where you can

  contribute your amateur observations of Deepsky Objects.

  Send your contributions to

  [email protected]

  , subscribe by email to

  [email protected], 1-line body message

  “subscribe“.

  Web Archive,

• Hartmut Frommert’s Messier Object Observations

If you would like to include a link to your Messier Object Observations,

please send email to [email protected]!

Only if you have already observed all Messier objects, you should

click here.

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Hartmut Frommert

([email protected])

Christine Kronberg

([email protected])

Last Modification: 15 Feb 1998, 15:40 MET