Messier Marathon

Quick little snapshots documenting a "half-marathon" from Trail 53, sunset to about 11pm local time, before the toes gave out. These are not meant to be highly detailed images, only an audit trail of the objects in the order they were observed, one after the other.

And honestly, these snapshots are way more representative of the actual view of the target in an eyepiece, as opposed to the refined, processed images that appear in the gallery. Many of the shots have an annotation ring around the target and its neighbors to aid in their identification. (The derivation of "Messier objects" is explained in the glossary.)