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demure · 3159 days ago · link · · parent · post: I am happy, Hubski, and I have to share this report from tonight.
My introductory astro class used cardboard-tube 6 inch Dobsonians. As such, we starhopped for all our object finding. I set the record at something like 39 Messier objects in one season. (New England in the fall season)
user-inactivated · 3159 days ago · link ·
Neat. I can find M3, M5, M80, most of the stuff in Sagitarius, M11 without even thinking about it now. I did manage to star hop to M101 and M51 at a star party in West Virginia, but not sure I can do that again. When you start getting into the Herschel 400 stuff, where there may be a single Mag. 10 star within a 1/4 degree of sky, I start punching in buttons on the GOTO. The guy I was with last night, however, is up to something like 200 out of the 400 documented and is going to get that pin.