Messier Deep-Sky Catalog
A Field Guide to All 110 Objects
Observing atlas of all 110 Messier objects. 133 A4 pages in English and Czech, free to download as PDF.
Download PDF ↓Dark edition, English · 18 MB
Other editions and Czech →What is inside
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Each object page has
- Photograph and data table: type, distance, magnitude, position, size.
- Constellation map: the naked-eye view around the object.
- Finder chart: the 5° field of a 9×50 straight-through finder, rotated 180° as seen in it.
- Eyepiece view: the true 1.11° field of a 17.5 mm Morpheus in a 10″ Dobsonian (68.6×).
- Text: discovery and history, what to see at the eyepiece, why the object matters.
Downloads
| Edition | Use | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Dark | Star charts on a black sky, as at the eyepiece. For tablet or laptop. | English ↓ 18 MBCzech ↓ 18 MB |
| Light | Charts on white with star colours clearly visible. For screen or a colour printer. | English ↓ 18 MBCzech ↓ 18 MB |
| Greyscale charts and photographs. For a black-and-white printer. | English ↓ 17 MBCzech ↓ 17 MB |
All editions have the same 133 pages.
Facts
- Contents
- Biography of Charles Messier · 12 monthly sky maps · 110 object pages · appendices (people, image credits, sources).
- Monthly maps
- The sky from 50° N on the 15th at 22:00 CET, with sunset, astronomical darkness and the objects up that night.
- Data
- Saguaro Astronomy Club DSO database 8.1 · Steinicke RNGC/IC · HYG 4.1 (bright stars) · Gaia DR3 (faint stars) · Stellarium (constellation figures after O. Hlad, IAU boundaries). Full list in the PDF.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0. Text adapted from Wikipedia. Photographs under their own licences, credited in the PDF.
- Edition
- 2026-09-07