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[AJ Crayon <acrayon@xxxxxxx>]

Also notice the JPL Space Calendar has an announcement.  Did I already post 
this?

Clear skies and see you Friday,
aj
---- Jack Jones <Telescoper@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Also notice both March Sky&Tel and Astronomy magazines have announcements on 
> their Events pages about the upcoming All-AZ Marathon.
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> >Jimmy, nice to see the visibility about MM's especially here in Arizona.
> 
> >The web meister for the Messier Marathon Observer's Results 
> >(http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/marathon/results.html) Hartmut Frommert 
> >sent me e-mail the other day letting me know the AAMM is on the JPL Space 
> >calendar.  See http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
> 
> Thanks and clear skies,
> aj
> 
> 
> >>---- Jimmy Ray <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The March issue of Astronomy has a very nice illustrated pullout of the
> > Messier catalog. It has photo's of all the objects plus charts, positions
> > and "fun facts" throughout. It also of interest to see that individuals of
> > the Arizona amateur and professional astronomy community appear to be
> > dominant Messier experts as there it a fair amount of text quoting Tom
> > Polakis and Brian Skiff. It's interesting to note in the article that Tom
> > now appears to live in Arizona city (Great, we can now stay at his house
> > during the marathon) and Brian has a very nice margin piece on the naked eye
> > object list he keeps (I'll have the try that one).
> > There are a large amount of photo credits along the bottom of pages 6 and 7
> > of the pullout so I wouldn't be surprised to see some other Arizona
> > Astronomy notables. All in all a great little "keeper" just in time for AJ's
> > messier marathon
> >
> > Jimmy Ray
> 
> 
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