[AZ-Observing] Re: Observing large #s of objects in one night
- From: Wil Milan <wmilan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:23:46 -0700
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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