THE MESSIER CATALOG Messier Marathoners: Email me your results! (2002 and earlier) Index of Messier objects with image icons or in text mode Go, find the hottest stuff here ! Messier Object Of The Week Look at Nebulae Look at Star Clusters Look at Galaxies During the years from 1758 to 1782 Charles Messier, a French astronomer (1730 - 1817), compiled a list of approximately 100 diffuse objects ...

CCD Images of Messier Objects: These objects were discovered in the 18th century and were catalogued so that eyeball observers using small telescopes would not confuse them with comets. With the naked eye as a detector, most of these objects appear as dim grayish blobs. They are considered a challenge to find for many amateur astronomers. These objects are generally of large angular size and ...

Last Updated: June 15, 2002 What's New Here are some pictures I took of the annular solar eclipse of June 10, 2002. Quality is not very good... I used an inexpensive digital camera... but it's interesting to see! (Picture page will open in new window.) A sneak preview of the Caldwell Object Log is now available in PDF format! (UPDATED 5/12/2002!) The Eyepiece Calculator page now links to a ...