Hi Tom

I am delighted to report a 110% success from the Canary Islands (28N) on the
night of 19/20th March. I observed with my home-built 10" truss-tube
dobsonian from above 2000m on the slopes of Mt Tiede, Tenerife. Conditions
were almost perfect apart from an occasional strong breeze.

I have now returned to a cold cloudy and rainy UK!

Paul

"Tom Polakis" wrote in message
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Has anybody heard of any reports of a perfect score of all 110 objects
in the Messier marathon this year? I reckon our observing window at
latitude 33 degrees north in Arizona is about March 22 through 29. I
was really curious if anybody would get all 110 on the night of the
20th at our big event, but a wall of clouds in the east kept the best
scores down to 109. My hunch is that M30 may have been visible in
that bright twilight if conditions were better.

Tom