• Mel Bartels' Messier Object Observations. Mel has created eyepiece drawings from his visual observations, and made some of them available online (including the Messier objetcts M57 and M64)
• Don Machholz has estimated visual magnitudes and apparent dimensions of all Messier objects; look at his list (from the Messier Marathon Observer's Guide)
• Sketches of all Messier objects by Larry and Suzanne McHenry
• Messier object observations (sketches and logs) by Chris Randall
• John Blackwell's sketches of all Messier objects and some of the Herschel 400 objects
• Bill Ferris' Messier Object Observations with sketches of all Messier objects; also many NGC/IC and other objects
• Messier object observations by Tim Harris; Drawings, CCD-images and descriptions of Clusters, Nebulae and Galaxies.
• Jeff Medkeff's sketches of Messier objects
• Sketches of Messier and other Deepsky Objects by "Seismo-Zombie" Scott D. Davis
• Messier Object Observations by Dirk Panczyk (in German)
• Messier object visibility in a Meade #395 telescope (3.5-inch refractor) by Luis Arguelles
• Bert Dekker's Sketches of Deep Sky Objects
• Tony Cecce's Twelve Month Tour of the Messier Catalog is based on Tony's Messier Object Observations
• The Messier Marathon is a particular (actually an extreme) form of observing them
• Internet Amateur Astro Catalog (IAAC): netastrocatalog at atmob.org, A former mailing list where you could contribute your amateur observations of Deepsky Objects, active 1996 to about 2014; main activity to 2004. IAAC Archive, Web Archive, Object Index.
• Steve Waldee's Deep Sky Object Observing pages
• Hartmut Frommert's Messier Object Observations

Only if you have already observed all Messier objects, you should click here.

Last Modification: November 24, 2005