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Name:
rachel
Your_website_or_website_recommended: my science teacher
Age:
18
Email:
Location:
san fransisco, california
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
Date:
04/22/08
Time:
08:20:07 PM
Comments:
sweet!
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Name:
Harry Costas
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
57
Email:
marycostas@optusnet.com.au
Location:
Sydney Australia
Equipment:
none
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
4 Pretty good but needs...(Please put a comment in box above).
Date:
04/19/08
Time:
12:52:42 AM
Comments:
Can you get better images
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Name:
mike gallear
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
62
Email:
smg@smgcontrolsystems.co.uk
Location:
Wombourne
Equipment:
10" NEWTONIAN
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
Date:
04/15/08
Time:
10:26:25 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Christine Nel
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
48
Email:
christine.nel@umontana.edu
Location:
UoM, Missoula, Montana
Equipment:
none
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
04/12/08
Time:
06:18:02 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Kailey
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
15
Email:
Location:
Corona
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Completed more than one marathon!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
04/12/08
Time:
02:39:35 PM
Comments:
I've observed all of Messier's objects through our 8 inch Schmidt
Newtonian telescope from Meade. I'm a member of Riverside
Astronomical Society and am getting an early start on the National
History Day. I'm doing a research paper on the life of Charles
Messier and found the biographical information very helpful.
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Name:
Caroline
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
63
Email:
Location:
UK
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
04/11/08
Time:
05:25:26 AM
Comments:
I'm following up a comment in a somerset parish register that 'a
large comett was seen in the east for many days in September
1769'.
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Name:
Michael Laskey
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
64
Email:
mlaskey64@comcast.net
Location:
Huntsville, AL
Equipment:
Meade 102mm Mak/Cas
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
04/08/08
Time:
10:36:04 PM
Comments:
New to the hobby
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Name:
Simeon Ike
Your_website_or_website_recommended: nasa.gov
Age:
12
Email:
sdukie@aol.com
Location:
-_________________________
Equipment:
none
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
Date:
04/06/08
Time:
08:45:01 PM
Comments:
good
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Name:
Stuart Warrender
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
61
Email:
doctor@Warrender.net
Location:
March, Cambridgshire, UK
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
04/06/08
Time:
07:26:32 PM
Comments:
Thanks for your ideas around a slit-hub winch. Might come in
useful.
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Name:
sergio
Your_website_or_website_recommended: cloudy nights
Age:
47
Email:
sergiodnl@yahoo.com.ar
Location:
Vicente Lopez / ARGENTINA
Equipment:
NEWTONIAN, for me the best type of telescope
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
04/01/08
Time:
06:42:30 PM
Comments:
A total of 150+- messier, ngc, ic,mel etc with newtonian
reflectors from 76 to 250mm, the mayority from city skies
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Name:
Patrice Frazier-Long
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
55
Email:
pefraz@razzolink.com
Location:
Hollister, CA.
Equipment:
Meade LX90 12" GPS
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
03/29/08
Time:
08:13:21 PM
Comments:
Just learning. Great web site.
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Name:
Vincent Marquez
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
43
Email:
vincelori@verizon.net
Location:
Phelan California
Equipment:
16 inch dob.
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
03/29/08
Time:
04:19:19 PM
Comments:
Ihave observed about 60 Messier objects
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Name:
Janet
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
21
Email:
tuah_janet@yahoo.com
Location:
Malaysia
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
03/28/08
Time:
01:34:36 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Angie Meisner
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
39
Email:
angie.meisner@yahoo.com
Location:
Ventura, California
Equipment:
borrowed on from a relative... it's very BIG
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
03/27/08
Time:
11:38:08 PM
Comments:
My friend and I are taking a college Astronomy class (to fulfill
credits) but we are enjoying it so much that we are going to Mt.
Pinos, Calif. to star gaze this weekend!!!
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Name:
Dick Tobiason
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
73
Email:
dtobiason@bendcable.com
Location:
Bend, Oregon, USA
Equipment:
Celestron Nexstar 8 GPS
Marathon_history:
Completed one marathon!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
03/07/08
Time:
01:41:44 PM
Comments:
Viewed 105 Messier objects in 2006 Marathon at Arizona City, AZ
Name:
Ricky R. Smith
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
50
Email:
NiteCritr@bresnan.net
Location:
Fruita, Colorado
Equipment:
Lx200
Marathon_history:
Completed more than one marathon!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
Date:
02/25/08
Time:
01:31:21 PM
Comments: 2007 MM viewed 96 objects
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Name:
Jill Roberts
Your_website_or_website_recommended: milwaukeeastro.org
Age:
42
Email:
jkrjkp@yahoo.com
Location:
New Berlin, Wisconsin
Equipment:
Orion 8" DSE Dobsonion
Marathon_history:
Completed more than one marathon!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
02/25/08
Time:
09:15:43 AM
Comments:
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Name:
James H Schultheis
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
49
Email:
Location:
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
02/10/08
Time:
05:14:38 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Jeff Schmitt
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
50
Email:
hohum45@netscape.net
Location:
Arcata, CA
Equipment:
Celestron C-8, 10" Homemade Dobsonian
Marathon_history:
Completed more than one marathon!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
02/09/08
Time:
05:13:15 PM
Comments:
I believe I have seen them all! We have done the
Marathon about a dozen times, with my personal record at 106, and
the Astronomers of Humboldt record at 107, I think. We have
a fairly dark site at a rural mountaintop airport (no lights, and
rarely any planes), at about 2,800 ft in a dark part of the
country. Moisture is a problem, especially to the west in
the early evening. All-Nighters, like the marathon, are most
difficult around 12 am
or 1 am, and then a second wind seems to fill our sails, and take
us through until dawn. Coffee, snacks, and a bathroom are
important.
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Name:
Chris Graham
Your_website_or_website_recommended: none
Age:
53
Email:
chris.graham@ci.austin.tx.us;
cgraham85@austin.rr.com
Location:
Austin, Texas
Equipment:
Orion XT6
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
02/06/08
Time:
12:26:19 PM
Comments:
Just started a year ago. I am still learning my way around the
night sky. I wish we would have named the stars with normal names.
That would make them easier to remember.
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Name:
thomas bivona
Your_website_or_website_recommended: comcast.net
Age:
49
Email:
Location:
cape coral fl.
Equipment:
orion 130
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
02/05/08
Time:
01:48:10 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Ron Garrett
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
71
Email:
Location:
Melbourne (The real one)
Equipment:
12 lx200 gps
Marathon_history:
Completed one marathon!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
Date:
01/30/08
Time:
11:00:36 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Carlos Carvalho
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
44
Email:
cacalo1963@hotmail.com
Location:
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
01/30/08
Time:
06:42:39 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Glenn Gailey
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
47
Email:
starscaner@hotmail.com
Location:
L.A. CA. USA.
Equipment:
90mm mac cass
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
02/02/08
Time:
04:36:07 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Igor Ziberna
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
45
Email:
igor.ziberna@uni-mb.si
Location:
Maribor, Slovenia
Equipment:
30 cm newtonian
Marathon_history:
Completed more than one marathon!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
01/23/08
Time:
05:11:15 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Ron Rizzo
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
59
Email:
ronrizzo@starcleanerskc.com
Location:
Kansas City
Equipment:
Stellarvue 80mm Apo Triplet Refractor
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
01/21/08
Time:
08:19:40 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Andrew Koehn
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
21
Email:
Location:
Fort Sumner, NM
Equipment:
Orion Skyquest XT 10
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
01/12/08
Time:
01:25:02 PM
Comments:
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Name:
John French
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
65
Email:
jfrench11@kc.rr.com
Location:
Lansing, KS
Equipment:
Bushnell
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
69.76.202.255
Remote User:
Date:
12/29/07
Time:
04:49:51 PM
Comments:
Just started. Got site name from Astronomy Mag--Glenn Chaple
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Name:
charles
Your_website_or_website_recommended: cloudynights.com
Age:
99
Email:
Location:
georgia
Equipment:
8" Dobsonion & 7X50 binos
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
72.150.72.186
Remote User:
Date:
12/29/07
Time:
01:56:15 AM
Comments:
Great site, but could use some updating and higher placement on
search engines. I've been observing off and on for quite a
few years. I've checked out most of the messier objects, and
would love to knock out a marathon.
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Name:
samantha leonard
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
13
Email:
Location:
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
11/26/07
Time:
04:17:04 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Jerry R. Evans
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
47
Email:
jrsdtexas@sbcglobal.net
Location:
Irving ,Texas
Equipment:
Celestron 10 in. newtonian
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
70.251.125.158
Remote User:
Date:
12/24/07
Time:
11:31:38 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Boyd Wood
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
67
Email:
bwfamily@sprint.ca
Location:
Toronto Ontario
Equipment:
Gave it away to my daughter years ago (must get another one)
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
12/01/07
Time:
06:16:17 AM
Comments:
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Name:
TJD
Your_website_or_website_recommended: excite.com
Age:
15
Email:
Location:
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
4 Pretty good but needs...(Please put a comment in box above).
Date:
11/30/07
Time:
10:31:41 AM
Comments:
Geocentric Models
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Name:
amit k tomar
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
25
Email:
amittomar450@yahoo.co.in
Location:
delhi, India
Equipment:
200mm,newtonion
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
59.178.54.103
Remote User:
Date:
11/26/07
Time:
01:01:13 AM
Comments:
no
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Name:
Gail Elliott
Your_website_or_website_recommended: ldsgail@yahoo.com
Age:
48
Email:
ldsgail@yahoo.om
Location:
Salt lake Utah
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
70.1.40.181
Remote User:
Date:
11/22/07
Time:
12:52:58 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Celestial views
Your_website_or_website_recommended: Im very glad to visit your
website by my mobile phone
Age:
17
Email:
Celestialviews2@gmail.Com
Location:
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
B1:
Remote Name:
85.185.37.25
Remote User:
Date:
11/08/07
Time:
03:20:51 AM
Comments:
I have a small 7*50 binoculars and i live in a very light polluted
city so i have seen few messier objects.
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Name:
Jasmina
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
27
Email:
jasmina.salic@gmail.com
Location:
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
193.77.45.147
Remote User:
Date:
11/04/07
Time:
12:17:15 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Terri Giordano Klaus
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
52
Email:
grammy72500@aol.com
Location:
Palm Bay, Florida
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
24.243.142.92
Remote User:
Date:
10/27/07
Time:
02:25:04 PM
Comments:
It was my late husbands dream to take part in the Messier
Marathon. He was an officer in the Westchester Amateur
Astronomy Club. He died June 13, 2006 at the age of 52.
I want to do the marathon for him and fulfill his dream. I
have all his equipment, a 20 year old son to help and a smattering
of knowledge> What are my chances?
Response from Messiermarathon.com:
Terri,
Your chances are excellent
to have great outing that night. But please don't feel
disappointment if you find just a percentage of the items. You
said his dream was to take part in the Messier
Marathon, and taking part is the big part. Perhaps your goal
could be to get through the night to try
to get a peek at all the objects and in this way complete
the marathon. Who knows you may make it a yearly event!
Thanks for writing and I am sorry
for your loss. Family "is were it is at"
Good Luck!
Guy Mitchell
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Name:
Marv Cope
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
58
Email:
M.cope@comcast.net
Location:
Livermore, CA
Equipment:
RCX400-14"
Marathon_history:
Completed one marathon!
Site_rating:
2 Very helpful!
Date:
10/12/07
Time:
08:49:03 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Mike Webb
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
63
Email:
mikewebb@trivergent.net
Location:
Greenville, SC
Equipment:
12.5 Newtonian
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
10/06/07
Time:
10:18:01 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Laura
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
37
Email:
Location:
California
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
10/05/07
Time:
03:01:00 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Charley Kelly
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
73
Email:
cek1934@aol.com
Location:
Georgetown, Texas
Equipment:
none
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
09/24/07
Time:
05:06:19 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Antonio L. Rivera Velez
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
37
Email:
tonynikon@yahoo.com
Location:
Puerto Rico
Equipment:
I have yet a Celestron 15x70
Marathon_history:
Want to this year!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
09/23/07
Time:
03:39:06 PM
Comments:
I'd worked in an Planetarium back in 1992. While I'm not an
expert, I do love the skies at night.
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Name:
Bill Freibus
Your_website_or_website_recommended: Naperville Astro. Assoc.
Age:
60
Email:
Location:
illinois
Equipment:
XT10 with Moonlite Focuser, Stratus eyepieces.
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
66.245.135.153
Remote User:
Date:
09/13/07
Time:
09:53:13 PM
Comments:
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Name:
Rick Lucas
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
52
Email:
Location:
Kapolei, Hawaii
Equipment:
10"eade Litebridge
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
3 Good, keep at it!
B1:
Submit
Remote Name:
66.91.204.55
Remote User:
Date:
09/11/07
Time:
11:55:27 PM
Comments:
I had a four inch telescope for starters haere in Hawaii, now 11
years later purchased A new home and 10" Meade Litebridge
coupled with a 12mm Televue with 82 degree field of view and
BAM..... Im seeing all the Messier, NGC objects off my 24X24'
deck. And the added value is the Milky way is directly over my
area at the present time. Astronmy magazine gives me what to look
forward to each month with sky maps and thats helpful. The planets
are cool but Nebulas, Galaxy's, clusters both open and closed and
the ocassional passing satellites are a mind trip. I have seen
some things I cant explain but just nodded and chalked it up as OK
what the hell was that.
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Name:
Cristina Galindo
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
18
Email:
galindo_cristinajoy
Location:
Pasay
Equipment:
hubble telescope
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
08/31/07
Time:
03:06:46 AM
Comments:
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Name:
Abe Torkelton
Your_website_or_website_recommended:
Age:
28
Email:
alxTorkelton6766@cape-mail.com
Location:
Equipment:
Marathon_history:
Someday maybe!
Site_rating:
1 The best!
Date:
08/21/07
Time:
07:07:29 PM
