I have a starmap over my desk (next to my certificate - number 182 - March 3, 1999) on which I have plotted all of the herschell 400 objects. There is of course a huge clustering of objects in Virgo/Coma, and a smaller swarm over and between the teapot of sagittarius and scorpius. The next most obvious group is around CMa/Monoceros. You can easily trace the course of the milky all the way from Winter to Summer by following the dots even though the Milky Way itself is not plotted specifically on my map. I think two nights would be tough, even if you were INSANE enough to try. Three might be do-able: June for the summer milky way, December for the winter milky way, and one MONSTER night in March to clean out Virgo/Coma. Of course if you plan on drawing them all and making notes like you are supposed to, you'll never make it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Thad Robosson [mailto:starstarcracker@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:18 PM > To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Herschel 400 Awards in Arizona > > > > > > In the style of the Messier Marathon, I wonder what is > the optimum > > season to observe the Herschel 400, and whether you could > get the bulk of > > them (say 300+) in a single night. I presume since there > are a lot of > > galaxies, the optimum is sometime in spring, and that with > two full clear > > nights (one in spring, one in autumn) that were > well-planned, you could > > make quick work of the complete list. The nights might be closer > together, > > say March and June. > > > Would kinda takes the fun out of observing the list, doncha ya think? > > (Well, Ok, maybe not for guys like Tom and Steve who've done > the H400 eons > ago.....) > > Thad > > > -- > See message header for info on list archives or > unsubscribing, and please > send personal replies to the author, not the list. > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.