Mount: iOptron CEM40 Telescope: Nexstar 8SE @ f/6.3 Camera: ASI183MC Pro Control: ASIAir Pro
Live stacked with 78 three minute subs. I binned the subs 2x2 to reduce oversampling with the IMX183 chip's tiny pixels. 
Your definition of the meter leaves out the most interesting part. Yes, it was 1,000, 000th the distance of the equator to the North Pole, but how far is that? That wasn't known accurately in the 18th Century. So, two Frenchmen, Delambre and Mechain conducted the longest meridian survey every attempted. They also did so while half of Europe was at war with one another. It was an amazingly dangerous endeavor. There is also significant evidence they totally flubbed and hand-waived their results. So, although their science ended up being questioned, the process and method was accepted and the Meter was defined.
I took the stacked fit from ASIAir and processed in SIRIL: cropped, extracted background, photogrammatic color correction, and deconvolution, and finally a asihn histogram stretch.