How about a marathon for those with big GOTO scopes? Mabe they could find as many objects as possible from one or both of the Astronomical League's Herschel 400 catalogs. Note: one must record his or her observations, at least breafly describing the object. Example: fairly bright elliptical galaxy, considerably brighter toward the center.
Greg
Greg
"Though parted by a gulf more impassable than any sea, the telescope lets us traverse what otherwise had been barred and lands us at last above the shores we went forth to seek. Real the journey is, though incorporeal in kind. Since the seeing strange sights is the essence of all far wanderings, it is as truly tavel so the eye arrive as if the body kept it company." Pervcival Lowell
