My attempt at trying to image as many of the Messier objects as I can. Hopefully they will get better as my skills improve. Not all are easily visible from here in Edinburgh, Scotland so I won’t get all of them…

The first version of Charles Messier’s “Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters” appeared in the “Mémoires de l’Academie” for 1771. The first supplement was published in “Connoissance des Temps” for 1783.

“Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, Which one discovers between the fixed Stars, over the horizon of Paris. Observed at the Observatory of the Navy, with different instruments.”

16 February 1771

Choose from M1 – M30, M31 – M60, M61 – M90, M90+.