Digitized images from old magazines

I'm sure there are better places to post this question but since I don't subscribe to any forums related to astrophography, this is my best choice...

I have just taken my best image yet, meaning: "In-Focus". Unfortunately I have a reflection from Phad (big dipper star) and I only took a few images (54minutes at 4 minutes each). It still looks great to me :-)

Any case, I'd like to compare this and all my other images to images in the S&T and/or Astronomy magazines of the 70's and 80's and/or other magazines. I went to the S&T web site but best I could do is to download a CVS archive which has no listing for M109. So now I'm clueless where to search for older images from the bigger and well known observatories preferably in a digital format

Suggestions

Good luck on finding them. I didn't see this particular object on "older" APOD, but I do think it is interesting to browse some of those older images and see how things have improved in the last 15 years. Just go to the archive link and start at the bottom.

Charlie

"M109 galaxy" in Google images returns over 17,000 results.

I get it that you are trying to find some old photos of M109 to see how the work in the olden days compares to your recently taken photo.

May I suggest a library, where you might find an old book on the heavens. A number of high school libraries, college libraries, etc. might work. In addition, your local club probably has a guy who has been collecting all his old magazines for thirty or forty years. I even keep old Meade Catalogues from when I first bought equipment.

FInally, compare your work to the Palomar Sky Survey (available in various places, I understand) and other work that was done in the middle of the last century.

Alex