Re: [APML] Messier Photographic Catalog

["Jim Janusz" <jjanusz@ix.netcom.com>]

OK the first release of the catalog is on-line with contributions from Chris
Cook, Sean Walker, Bobby Middleton, Torsten Clay, Mike Leitch, and David
Moore.  Use the link below to check it out and comments please!

Let me know any bad links also.......

Any other contributors out there?

Jim


----- 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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