Image of 110 Celestial Objects Created in 352 Hours

Amateur astrophotographer Cornelis van Zuylen has created an extraordinary cosmic mosaic of 110 galaxies, star clusters, and nebulae from the Messier catalog.

Amateur astrophotographer Cornelis Van Zuylen has created a fantastic cosmic mosaic of 110 galaxies, star clusters and nebulae from the Messier catalog.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, quoted by Space, Van Zuylen says about this: "One of the first Messier objects that I photographed was the Parvin star cluster (M45) in 2024. At that time, I had just bought my cooled camera to photograph deep sky objects and was just starting my journey in the world of astrophotography. "About a year and a half ago, I decided to photograph all the objects in this catalog."

He spent a total of 352 hours and 13 minutes photographing deep sky objects with two Askar 103APO and William Optics Redcat 51 MK2.5 telescopes. Then he processed the images of each object using Photoshop and an astronomical software.

Van Zuylen observed and photographed many of these heavenly bodies from the balcony of his house in the city of Hilo in the Netherlands; But to record some others, he had to move his telescopes to more distant areas so that the trees and farm buildings would not block the objects in the field of view of his camera.

Messier's catalog was first compiled by Charles Messier, an 18th century French astronomer. He intended to compile a list of deep-sky objects that might be mistaken for comets because of their appearance in the night sky.

This catalog has been revised many times and now includes some of the most famous deep-sky objects that can be seen from the northern hemisphere; including the Andromeda Galaxy, the open star cluster Parvin (M45) and the Orion Nebula (M42).