David Malin's astrophotos of Messier objects

The images linked in this page are all copyrighted and may be used for private purpose only. For any other kind of use, including internet mirroring and storing on CD-ROM, please contact Coral Cooksley of the Anglo Australian Observatory. These images may be only used uncropped, with burned-in or adjacent copyright informations and/or image numbers.

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 [caption]
  • 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: deep b/w negative image; b/w positive.
  • M89: deep image (b/w negative), showing a jetlike structure and a faint ring of matter; b/w positive. Inset shows conventional photo of M89.
  • M100: deep b/w negative with a conventional color image overlaid; b/w positive and color negative.
  • 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: M1 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M5: M5 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M8: M8 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M11: M11 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M16: M16 Full View small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]; M16 Central Part small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M17: M17 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M20: M20 Full View small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]; M20 Deeper Photo small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M27: M27 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M31: M31 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M33: M33 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M42: M42 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M43: M43 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M45: M45 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M65: M65 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M66: M66 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M83: M83 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M84 and M86: M84 & M86 small gif, large gif, and jpg image
  • M87: M87 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M87 and Markarian's Chain (with M84, M86): M87 etc. small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M95: M95 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M100: M100 small gif, large gif, and jpg image [caption]
  • M104: M104 small gif, large gif, and jpg image

    More photographs of the Anglo Australian Observatory are available from their internet web site. Their image collection is also accessible by ftp, and mirrored at SEDS (by permission of David Malin and the Anglo-Australian Observatory). SEDS provides a Guide Page to David Malin's Colour Photographs of Deep Sky Objects.

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