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Nikon D70 105mm Wide Field Messier Images Index

Nikon D70 50mm Wide Field Messier Images Index

M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M8 M9 M10 M11

M12 M13 M14 M15 M16 M17 M18 M19 M20 M20 M21 M22

M23 M24 M25 M26 M27 M28 M29 M30 M31 M32 M33

M34 M35 M36 M37 M38 M39 M40 M41 M42 M43 M44

M45 M46 M47 M48 M49 M50 M51 M52 M53 M54 M55

M56 M57 M58 M59 M60 M61 M62 M63 M64 M65 M66

M67 M68 M69 M70 M71 M72 M73 M74 M75 M76 M77

M78 M79 M80 M81 M82 M83 M84 M85 M86 M87 M88

M89 M90 M91 M92 M93 M94 M95 M96 M97 M98 M99

M100 M101 M102 M103 M104 M105 M106 M107 M108 M109 M110

Nikon D70 50mm Wide Field Messier Images Index Milky Way August 23-24, 2006 Milky Way August 26-27, 2006

French astromoner Charles Messier (1730-1817) created a catalog of nebulae and star clusters so that these objects would not be confused for comets which was his observing focus. Messier claimed to have discoved 21 comets. The Messier catalog contains objects observed by Messier and his fellow astronomer Pierre Mechain (1744-1805). The largest telescope used by Messier was 3.5 inch refractor.

The Messier catalog lists 110 deep sky objects cataloged by M numbers: M1 through M110. Messier objects are an excellent observing list for those intersted in observing deep sky objects and whoes observing location is in the mid-northern latitudes.

The above wide field Messier images were taken by David Haworth with a Nikon D70 digital camera with a 105mm or 50mm camera lens.

The image scale is the same for all the images and these images provide a good way to compare the size of the Messier deep sky objects with each other. For most of the 105mm camera lens images the image size or field of view is about 13° x 8.5°, north is top and west is right . For comparison the moon is about 0.5° in diameter and therefore the images are about 26 moon diameters wide and 17 moon diameters high.

Use the monitor test patterns to calibrate monitor brightness, contrast, height and width.

© 1998-2005 David Haworth