This year's Messier Marathon is: Primary Weekend Mar 25 New Moon 2006 Mar 29.4 Secondary Weekend Apr 01 From: http://www.messiermarathon.com/marathon_dates.htm If you do not own Machholz's book, for free you can also download TUMOL - The Ultimate Messier Object Log. http://www.davidpaulgreen.com/tumol.html - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ