[AZ-Observing] Re: Observing large #s of objects in one night

Yes, but Don Macholz probably has the northern sky pretty well memorized. 
 From his decades of comet hunting he can probably point a telescope 
anywhere in the sky and pick up one or two fuzzies most of us have never 
even heard of. :-)

Wil M.

At 10:50 AM 11/22/2002, you wrote:

>Following up on the thread of "Herschel 400 Awards in Arizona" and
>observing large numbers of AL Herschel objects in a single night, I just
>wanted to point out Don Machholz's article along these lines that appeared
>in the March, 1982 issue of Deep Sky Monthly, titled "The Massive
>Marathon".  (This appears just after my lead article in that issue on the
>Messier Marathon).  Don describes extending the Messier Marathon to his
>observing 599 deep sky objects in a single night.  This was done over
>about 8 1/2 hours on April 3-4, 1981.  I don't think I would ever attempt
>something like this, but just wanted to point out it has been done.


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