Re: [APML] Messier Photographic Catalog

["bert katzung" <katzung1@home.com>]

Jim:
Sounds like a fun project---count me in.
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@home.com
www.astronomy-images.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Janusz" <jjanusz@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [APML] Messier Photographic Catalog


> After all the recent noise on the list I thought I might propose a joint
> project for all the list members.  I was thinking about doing a
photographic
> atlas of the Messier objects and may still do this but my little mind came
> up with this idea.  Why not build a Web Site with linkages to all of the
> APML members Messier images?
>
> It would not require much Web space as no images would be stored there,
only
> links.  Selecting a Messier number would either take you to another list
of
> linkages or to the image.  Of course you would not be able to navigate the
> list from individual images but using the back button would bring you back
> to the catalog.  The link would include the photographers name and web
site
> location as well.
>
> I have posted a web page to:
>
> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~jjanusz/Messier_1.html
>
> This is a sample of how it could be organized with a single link to M8
> active.
> Anyone interested in participating?  Any ideas on better ways to organize
> it?  Anyone think I'm nuts?
> I volunteer to host it if there is no space on the seds server but it
would
> be nice if Gene hosted it as an official APML project.  Gene?
> Jim
> Astronomy  Web Page at:
> http://www.geocities.com/palmdesertratx/
>



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