My goal is to photograph to the best of my ability with the equipment afforded to me, all solar system objects applicable. Also, my main goal over the next couple years is to catalog all Messier Objects.
The Messier objects are a set of astronomical objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in his "Catalogue des Nébuleuses et des Amas d'Étoiles" ("Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters") included in the Connaissance des Temps for 1774 (published in 1771). The original motivation of the catalogue was that Messier was a comet hunter, and was frustrated by objects which resembled but were not comets. He therefore compiled a list of these objects in collaboration with his assistant Pierre Méchain. notes from Wikipedia.com
I will be cataloging and hand sketching all Messier objects as well as NGC and IC images, noting date, time, seeing conditions, telescope aperature, magnification and a short description including location.
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