The Nebular
Menagerie:
Visual Observations of Diffuse and Planetary Nebulae from McDonald and Siding
Spring Observatories
1977-1984
by Ron Buta
Explanation of website
Montage 1: NGC 456, 604, 650-1 (M76), 1491, 1501, 1514, 1535, 1555, 1714, 1769, 1788, 1931, 2022, 2024, 2068 (M78)
Montage 2: NGC 2175, 2261, 2371-2, 2392, 2438, 2440, 2610, 3242, 5873, 6210, 6302, 6337, 6543, 6565, 6720 (M57)
Montage 3: NGC 6778, 6781, 6804, 6818, 6826, 6891, 6894, 6905, 7008, 7009, 7026, 7027, 7354, 7635, 7662
Montage 4: NGC 346, 1579, 1763, 1936 group
Montage 5: NGC 1952 (M1), NGC 2032 group, 2467, 3372 (Eta Carinae)
Montage 6: NGC 3587 (M97), NGC 5189, NGC 6520 (M8), NGC 6618 (M17)
Big Nebulae
NGC 1976 (M42) The Great Nebula in Orion, 30-inch telescope, McDonald Observatory
NGC 2070 (30 Doradus) The Great Looped Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 36-inch telescope, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
For an article on these last two drawings, see The Deep-Sky Observer
(Quarterly Journal of the Webb Society), Issue 137, p. 19, 2005
See this website for some nebular drawings converted to positives
For a "spiral menagerie" (collection of visual drawings of spiral
galaxies), see this website and The Deep-Sky Observer, Issue 131, p. 1, 2003