I am currently busily typing my observation notes into a database. Arranging my notes in a format that can be more useful than piles of pages in three ring notebooks. Along the way my fumble fingers have discovered some creative misspellings for common astronomical terms, a couple of my favorites and proposed definitions I put here for your amusement... nagnitude (adj) A measure of the amount of nagging your spouse is capable of while you are loading your vehicle for a night out. magnidude (n) The guy who routinely uses the highest power possible with his telescope/eyepiece combination without regard to seeing conditions and says he can see details you cannot see with your telescope with twice the aperture, he actually has a 2mm eyepiece and uses it with his 8" f/10 SCT. apiral (adj) a rare form of galaxy with an appearance similar to a beehive, possibly the result of an open cluster superimposed on a galaxy The somewhat more edited results can be viewed at http://www.siowl.com/Herschel400/herschel400.html Or you can try http://www.siowl.com/Herschel400/h400query.php?40 and change the number after the question mark to the desired NGC number for a query to my MySQL database. All of the Messier objects and H400 objects now have entries, most of them are even complete, it is the scans of most of my drawings that now need to be done. Andrew Cooper ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.siowl.com -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.