I'm rolling through the Messier Catalog. It's 8 or so years in the works but I now have images of 109 of the 110 objects! Only one left is, M79 in Lepus the constellation just south of Orion. I will hopefully image it before the end of the year.
Total list and progress is
on my home page - http://maphilli14.webs.com/mike-s-deep-sky-photos
On a single clear night, mind you there haven't been many, I shot 3 more.
Here's M72, which I thought I had shot previously, but mis labled it so I had to shoot it for real this time!
Next up is either an asterism or open cluster, it's listed as both in different places, but M73 is the simple group of 4 stars in the upper right.
M30 came out very nicely after a few battles with software and alignment issues in the previous two shots. Here is the full field. But click
here on Astrobin for the full res
Here is the full res cropped at HD res.
While I waited for my targets to clear the trees I found a small group of galaxies, NGC 6702 & 6703. Amongst them are many other galaxies, mag 15-16+ I found no measure of distance or radial velocity, which I initially found intriguing but am no annoyed I don't know how far away they are!
Here's a overlay with labels.
For more trippy 'vastness of the universe reads' link to an old post about
Abell 262 here
