The Messier Catalogue includes many famous deep-sky objects observed in the Northern Hemisphere. Astronomy magazine showcases images captured by a variety of instruments used by amateur astronomers through focused articles and the Reader Gallery. I invite you to contribute your images here as well along with a brief description of your instrumentation, exposure and total integration times, post-editing (if any), and observing conditions (eg. Bortle, moon data, weather conditions, etc.).
I would like to start with the Pleiades (M45) in the constellation Taurus. There is an excellent example of this open cluster in the March 2025 issue of Astronomy 53(3), pages 44-45, written by Michael E. Bakich. Here is how my Celestron Origin did back on September 29, 2024.
Note that this image compares quite well with the same in the Astronomy article despite a short total integration time of less than 10 minutes. This time limitation was due to rapidly moving cloud cover. The exposure time was set to 10 seconds. The only post-editing were a few adjustment using the built-in photo editing tools on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphone.
Dennis
Location: Kempt, Shore, Nova Scotia, Canada
Latitude: 45°N
What I have seen with my scope is really nothing when looking at this, (I know so much isn’t visible with naked eyes without camera sensors, but your scope is really more capable )
The Rosette Nebula NGC4237 I think . Not a Messier object though , so it doesn’t really belong in this thread . I guess I should start a new thread for NGC objects .
