Messier Marathon March 11-12, 2000
Wallpapers of the Messier Objects
Messier objects are the catalogue of 110 prominent deep-sky objects discovered by the great comet hunter Charles Messier, 1730-1817.
Messier won fame for a catalogue of objects he sought to avoid, while the more than dozen comets discovered are forgotten today.
To amateur astronomers, these are jewels of the night sky. Objects to see with the naked eye, binoculars, telescopes and CCD cameras.
The imaging session was non-stop. Tarps blocked the wind and 2 space heaters kept us thawed out.
People brought us food and drinks as we averaged an image about every 6 minutes.
We realized about 40 images into the session that we could not image the catalogue like this, so we started alternating objects.
Wallpapers of the 104 objects are available in the 2 image large files.