FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: 2004 All Arizona Messier Marathon

["Tom Polakis" <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>]

Note that there will be no chance to see all 110 Messier objects on the 
night of Saturday, March 20.  This is through no fault of AJ's; it's just 
that the New Moon falls about a week too early in 2004.  Anybody who says 
that they saw M30 on the morning of March 21 has graduated from liar to 
damned liar.

If you really want to see all 110 objects, the window begins about five 
nights later.  Perhaps the way to see (or image) them all in one night 
next year will be to tough it out under First Quarter moonlight on 
Saturday, the 27th.

Tom



>
> Jeff Hopkins wrote:
> Jeff, sounds like you are set on this procedure.  It will be interesting
> to see how many you can observe and photograph.  I suspect, as does
> Steve Dodder, many of the more difficult ones (read fainter, early
> setters and late risers) will not be possible and should be skipped in
> the interest of time.  Not sure how many this will leave, but no doubt
> you will find out.
>
> Looking forward to the 2004 Alll Arizona Messier Marathon,
> aj
>
> >Thanks AJ.
> >
> >Actually what I had planned on doing is using a C-8 SCT with 6.3
> >reducer, flip mirror/eyepiece/filter and camera. All objects would be
> >found/centered using the eyepiece. So in addition to all images
> >captured there would be a direct eyepiece observation too.
> >
> >What could be better than an image to verify the observation?
> >
> >Thanks for the link. It was interesting to see the history and
> >successes. Also interesting was the huge success of SAC during 2003.
> >More people succeeded in 2003 at the SAC meet than all the rest of
> >the world since this began. Either AZ skies and observers are super
> >or extremely lucky.
> >
> >It would certainly be nice to have hard copy images to back claims
> >then noone  could dispute whether that was an eyepiece smudge or a
> >real observation.
> >
> >I also found it interesting that noone else seemed to have tried
> >digital imaging. With the big popularity of the web cameras, 2004 may
> >prove different.
> >
> >Jeff
> >
> >
>
>
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