Most of the asteroid rotation lightcurve observations made for my thesis were made at MIT's Wallace Astrophysical Observatory, using the 24'' telescope with the SNAPSHOT CCD system. During that 2.5-year span I also imaged each of the objects in the Messier Catalogue of bright star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, yielding the following collection of pretty pictures! Several of the original images have since been reshot with the same telescope using the PCCD, the successor to the SNAPSHOT.
All the images are the same scale, and most fit in a single frame. I've not yet resolved the issue of how best to add the several large multi-frame objects to these pages, so the latter aren't installed except for M7.
In the listing, "*" indicates an installed image.
| * | M7 open cluster (4x3 mosaic) |
| M8 Lagoon Nebula (3x2 mosaic) | |
| M16 open cluster with nebulosity (2x1 mosaic) | |
| M23 open cluster (2x2 mosaic) | |
| M24 open cluster (8x5 mosaic) | |
| M31 Andromeda Galaxy (7x3 mosaic) | |
| M39 open cluster (2x2 mosaic) | |
| M42 Orion Nebula (2x2 mosaic) | |
| M44 Beehive Cluster (4x3 mosaic) | |
| M45 Pleiades (4x4 mosaic) |
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Crab Nebula
open cluster
globular cluster
Omega Nebula
Trifid Nebula
Dumbbell Nebula
open cluster
Whirlpool Galaxy
Ring Nebula
spiral galaxy
spiral galaxy
spiral galaxy, during and after SN1993J
spiral galaxy
Owl Nebula
spiral galaxy
spiral galaxy
Horsehead Nebula
Cocoon Nebula
Helix Nebula
