The Observatories’ Messier Object Images

Messier Object Images from the Observatories

Here we list observatories which have provided images of Messier objects.

They were often sources for our pages.

Some of these sites make their photos available in other formats also. You

are welcome to take the

List of Great Observatories making Astronomical Photographs publicly

available as a starting point.

A copyright sign © indicates sources whose materials are restricted

for other than private usage.

The lack of this sign, however, does not necessarily imply that usage is

not restricted.

Please read our usage regulations page for more

detailed informations on using the materials in our pages.

• © AAT images of the Messier objects
• Bruce Balick’s images of Planetary Nebulae,

  obtained with the Kitt Peak 2.1-meter telescope

• Bill Keel’s collection at the

  University of Alabama, containing many images obtained at

  Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ

• © Sven Kohle’s and Till Credner’s images
• Ground based images by Paul Scowen

  of ASU, taken at the Hale 5-meter telescope

• Images by Scott Wolk and Nancy Adams

The following space-bound observatories (i.e., astronomical satellites, and

telescopes on spacecraft) are also represented in our pages with Messier

object images:

• The Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
• The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT)

  which is flown on the Space Shuttle as part of Spacelab, and was hitherto

  successfully employed on the Astro-1 (STS-35) and Astro-2 (STS-67)

  Shuttle missions

There are also some amateurs and amateur groups who have contributed images:

• © Jack Newton’s Messier Object images
• Tim Puckett’s Messier Object images
• Michael Purcell’s Messier Object images
• John Sefick’s Messier object images
• © Brad Wallis’ and Robert Provin’s images

  of Messier objects

• © Messier Object Images by Jason Ware
• The University of Arizona Astro Club

  images

• Images from Konstanz (Germany),

  from the members of the Interessengemeinschaft Astronomie

This page is currently under construction and not yet complete.

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Hartmut Frommert

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Christine Kronberg

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Last Modification: 7 Mar 1998, 17:30 MET