[sac-board] Re: Question: 110 best of NGC
- From: Paul Dickson <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: SAC-Board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 15:58:31 -0700
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:48:14 -0700, rick.rotramel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Check your award records, I started drawing the SAC Best of the NGC objects
> in 1985 or 1986, which means the list could have been around even earlier
> than that.
> I believe the list closely followed the best ngc objects in the Observer's
> Handbook published in Canada.
My book covers the differences between the two lists.
It's likely the preliminary versions of the list got tossed when version
1.0 was released. Besides, there are only 10 objects not in the list from
the Observer's Handbook, so the preliminary lists couldn't have been too
different.
-Paul
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