Messier Objects Project

[Stub Mandrel]

As part of my 'Messier project' I've converted my best picture of each object (the 70 I've photographed so far) into a 1200 x 900 jpeg file and put them all on my website with short descriptions, linked from here:

http://www.stubmandrel.co.uk/astronomy/3-messier-objects

The pictures range from the awful to ones I am really proud of. Filling the gaps and gradually getting all the pictures up to scratch is a great motivator. I hope you find them interesting.

[Stub Mandrel]

Here's a composite image with all the pictures at half resolution of 600 x 450 (larger objects like M31 and M81 and M101 are already downsampled to fit the 1200 x 900 format):

[tomato]

Very impressive, there are many excellent images in there. I remember posting an item a while back about a guy in Arizona I think it was who set himself the challenge of imaging them all in a single night!

Looking at your collection it makes me realise  how tough that would be, I wonder if he set up a sequence to do it in SGP?