Jay, The Astronomical League gives recognition for completing Caldwell list as well as the Herschel 400. Below is a link to the Caldwell list you may find more user friendly. 220 years ago today Caroline Herschel was injured helping her brother William observe. Perhaps this is why more women don't do astronomy. BTY, Mercury is 1.3 degrees left of Jupiter at sunset tonight. Happy New Year All and go Utes beat Bama , Erik http://www.astroleague.org/al/obsclubs/caldwell/cldwlist.html --- outwest112@yahoo.com wrote: From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Good Night Observing Ending with a Nice Meteor Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:58:47 -0800 (PST) Jay: Two more very important lists need to be mentioned. You may already have them. The Jay Eades to-do list can be printed out and kept with the telescope gear. As things get checked off they can be moved to another list, The Jay Eades life time list. This last one can be as simple or complex as you like. It can start with a text file that grows into a spread sheet maybe evolving into a full blown relational database. These personal lists are what we work with during blizzards and daylight, and they are the most satisfying lists of all. DT --- On Wed, 12/31/08, daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Good Night Observing Ending with a Nice Meteor To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 1:52 PM Jay:

There are a couple of 110 lists that are an easier transition than the jump the Herschel 400.

http://seds.org/messier/xtra/similar/sac110bn.html

This "best of the NGC" list is all visable from Utah, the southern most being Omega Centari which can be seen from Rush Valley.

http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/caldwell.html

The Caldwell list is all sky and would require a trip down under to complete, but the first half is visable from here and worth the effort.

Be aware that there are several versions of the H400. Some one Scandinavia rewrote the list to be more friendly to the northern European observer and published the ammended list under the same name. So if you google up the list you may not get the "official" one. Someone else came up with a second 400 for those who had done the first 400.

DT

--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> wrote:

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Just in case anyone can't tell my goal is to complete the Messier badge for next year's award and I'm doing pretty good with 45 items bagged. I also do hit some of the more interesting NCG's and will probably try to get the Hershel 400 after that.

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