David Malin’s astrophotos of Messier objects
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Colour Photographs from the 3.9m Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT)
- AAT 8. A spiral galaxy, Messier 83, (NGC 5236)
- AAT 12. The Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius, M20
- AAT 18. The emission nebula M 16, NGC 6611
- AAT 19. The Orion Nebula, M42, and M43
- AAT 28. Wide angle pic of the southern Milky Way
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- AAT 29. The Trapezium stars in the Orion Nebula
- AAT 30. The stars that excite the Trifid Nebula
- AAT 31. The Hourglass Nebula in Messier 8
- AAT 47. The dust lanes in Messier 16
- AAT 53. Messier 87 and its globular clusters
- AAT 58. M 100 (NGC 4321) in the Virgo cluster
- AAT 59. M 100 and its dwarf companions
- AAT 60. A giant elliptical galaxy, M 87
- AAT 61. M 65 (NGC 3623) spiral galaxy in Leo
- AAT 62. M 66 (NGC 3627) spiral galaxy in Leo
- AAT 69. Reflection nebulosity around M 20
- AAT 70. Star colours in the Globular cluster M5
- AAT 85. NGC 6618, the emission nebula Messier 17
- AAT 90. NGC 6705, a young open cluster, Messier 11
- AAT 97. NGC 3351, M95, a barred spiral galaxy in Leo
- AAT 100. Messier 104, the Sombrero galaxy, NGC 4549
Colour Photographs from the 1.2m UK Schmidt Telescope (UKS)
- UKS 4. Antares and the Rho Oph dark cloud
- UKS 5. The Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8
- UKS 7. The reflection nebula around Messier 20
- UKS 8. Messier 42, the Great Nebula in Orion
- UKS 18. The Pleiades reflection nebula
- UKS 22. The Milky Way south of Messier 17
- UKS 23. Faint nebulosity near Orion and Horsehead Nebulae
- UKS 24. M 84 and M 86 in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies
- UKS 26. Between the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae
Colour Photographs from the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT)
- INT 1. M31 nucleus (direct image)
- INT 2. M31 nucleus (unsharp mask)
- INT 5. The bright central regions of M33
- INT 6. The faint outskirts of M33
- INT 11. Messier 27, a planetary nebula
Colour Photographs from the Hale 5m Telescope
- CRAB. Messier 1, the Crab nebula
- CRAB_POL. The polarisation structure of the Crab nebula
More Images by David Malin
The following images are results of
special photographic techniques developed by David Malin (AAO).
These techniques are described online in David Malin’s webpages at the
AAO Web site, where you can
also find images of non-Messier deep sky objects:
- M84 and M86 with
several fainter NGC galaxies in Virgo Cluster:
- M89:
showing a jetlike structure and a faint ring of matter;
Inset shows conventional photo of M89.
- M100:
deep b/w negative with a
conventional color image overlaid;
- Trapezium Cluster in the heart of the
Orion Nebula M42, visible light compared to IR.
- M42 and M43:
deep image, contrast enhanced by David Malin’s
revolutionary unsharp masking techniques.
- M8:
deep image of the
Lagoon Nebula, contrast enhanced by unsharp masking techniques.
Special images provided by David Malin for these pages
Thanks to David Malin, who generously made them available, we can proudly present
the following images in our database:
- M1:
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- M5:
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- M8:
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- M11:
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- M16:
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- M17:
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- M20:
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- M27:
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- M31:
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- M33:
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- M42:
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- M43:
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- M45:
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- M65:
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- M66:
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- M83:
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- M84 and M86:
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- M87:
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- M87 and Markarian’s Chain (with M84, M86):
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- M95:
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- M100:
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- M104:
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More photographs of the Anglo Australian Observatory are available from their
Their image collection is also accessible
by ftp, and mirrored
(by permission of David Malin and the Anglo-Australian Observatory).
Guide Page to David Malin’s Colour Photographs of Deep Sky Objects.
Last Modification: 2 Aug 1999, 22:40 MET