Photos of Messier Objects

The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier. Messier was interested only in finding comets so he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them. This list, which Messier created in collaboration with his assistant Pierre Méchain, is now known as the Messier catalogue and is one of the most famous astronomical lists.

I have been trying to photograph as many of these objects as I can and my efforts so far are shown below.