Messier Marathon: Any Perfect Scores So Far?

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

Not me Tom. I got 102 at Az. City with my little ST80 and I'm sure you know
it was "catch as catch can". At least the company was excellent as usual.
I'd love to know if anyone got all of them.

Scott
Scottsdale, AZ
"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




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In article , Tom
Polakis wrote:

Has anybody heard of any reports of a perfect score of all 110 objects
in the Messier marathon this year?

I got zero. That's sort of perfect too, isn't it?

--
Joe Bergeron

http://www.joebergeron.com

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
om...
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

Paul Clark wrote:
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!

Congrats, Paul! Yours is the first "110%" success report I've seen, this year.
How difficult was M30 from 28º North?

Regards,
Bill Ferris
"Cosmic Voyage: The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers"
URL: http://www.cosmic-voyage.net
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Thank you Bill!

The conditions were excellent. M30 was observed at less than 2 degrees
elevation about 5 minutes after the start of dawn twilight. As soon as I
picked up 41 Cap I thought I could see something. After 5 more minutes the
nearby mag. 8.6 star and globular cluster were clearly resolved and not
difficult. The star hop (and 50 minute wait after M72,73) was very tense!

I was out again 2 nights later and had a ball!

Regards
Paul

PS Your evening sequence is fine though M52 of all objects wasn't as
straight forward as I expected. I was using memory, a Rigel Quikfinder and
charts from SkyMap Pro 10.

"Bill Ferris" wrote in message
...
Paul Clark wrote:
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!

Congrats, Paul! Yours is the first "110%" success report I've seen, this
year.
How difficult was M30 from 28º North?

Regards,
Bill Ferris
"Cosmic Voyage: The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers"
URL: http://www.cosmic-voyage.net
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