David, I'm nearly halfway through the Herschel-400 program, and I'm very much enjoying it (despite the frustration of having almost all of the summer objects and less than 1/3 of the winter/spring objects due to our fickle weather here). If nothing else you sharpen your observing skills, and it forces you to spend a bit more time at the eyepiece really seeing what's there. It's also a nice tour of some of the better deep sky gems out there on beyond Messier. As has already been mentioned, I'd start with the lunar and/or messier programs and expand from there. I had already observed all the messier objects (some of them dozens of times) in previous years of observing before I found out about the AL programs, so the logs I have are not in the AL required format (with the exception of a few that overlap into the H-400). I'll probably go back and do them again one of these days for consistency, and I'm fairly sure a few of the items on my M-list I've only visited once (what can I say, M-marathons are not my cup of tea). I've also done about half of the lunar program so far. FWIW, Rich --- David Trevino <dotrevino@yahoo.com> wrote:
I would like to ask the list if anyone out there has experience with such clubs?
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