In a message dated 2/27/02 6:04:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
mgw@No-Spam writes:
> So, who is actually going to try a marathon? I've done it once. If I go
> for both nights I'll probably dedicate one to M's and another to Hersehels.
>
I did it last year and was only two behind Paul Lefevre at the end. I
stupidly missed M110 and M32. Paul Sterngold and I were in the middle of the
lot, and with the number of scopes and the hoard of people, we couldn't get
our scopes down low enough to see them without getting an eyepiece full of
the crowd. We took out binos and ID'd M31, but the other two weren't there
in the binos. We should have just borrowed a scope from farther up the lot
for 15 seconds. :-(
I will be doing a Herschel 400 marathon. I've got about 80 objects left in
Coma, Virgo, and Ursa Major. I suppose I could do a partial marathon while
waiting for those constellations to rise.
On that subject, I recall Jay posting something once about a non-existent
object on the H400 list. Am I remembering correctly? If so, what was the
object?
Richard
(P.S. sorry about the off-topic food posting. I should know better.)