My Messier Marathon =================== Date: April 17/18, 2004 Observer: Tkachook Leonid, Kyiv Astronomy Club tlgleonid at bank.gov.ua +380672789510 Location: Makalevichi, Gitomir region, Ukraine. Lat: 50.688 N Long: 29.54 E Time Zone: UTC+3 Instruments used: Homemade Newton 6" f/6.3 Azimut mount. Magn: 30x Lim.mag: 6.0m Weather: +5..+8 °C. No Moon, Clear Sky The Object List: ================ No. M# Time Comments 1 M45 21:28 Very bright, visible to the unaided eye. 2 M41 21:34 A bright cluster low in the southern horizon 3 M43 21:35 Faint 4 M42 21:35 Bright 5 M34 21:39 Very beautiful 6 M93 21:46 A bright cluster low in the southern horizon 7 M46 21:50 A bright cluster. 8 M47 21:50 A very beautiful cluster 9 M50 21:55 A bright cluster. 10 M1 21:59 Faint 11 M78 22:04 Faint 12 M76 22:10 Dim 13 M35 22:13 A very beautiful cluster 14 M36 22:15 Bright 15 M38 22:16 Beautiful cluster 16 M37 22:17 A very beautiful cluster 17 M52 22:22 Bright and Big 18 M103 22:24 A small open cluster 19 M48 22:32 A large open cluster 20 M67 22:34 Beautiful cluster 21 M44 22:36 Very bright, visible to the unaided eye 22 M66 22:39 Beautiful galaxy 23 M65 22:39 Beautiful galaxy 24 M105 22:48 Dim 25 M95 22:48 Round galaxy 26 M96 22:48 Round galaxy 27 M81 22:53 Very bright, very beautiful 28 M82 22:53 Very bright, very beautiful 29 M101 23:01 Big and bright. 30 M94 23:05 Bright 31 M63 23:08 Bright 32 M109 23:11 Bright 33 M106 23:14 Bright 34 M51 23:17 Very bright, very beautiful,visible spiral structure. 35 M108 23:22 Faint 36 M97 23:22 Bright, Round and large 37 M40 23:31 Difficult 38 M53 23:36 Bright 39 M64 23:38 Bright 40 M3 23:40 Very Bright,very beautiful 41 M98 23:44 Edge-on galaxy 42 M99 23:45 Round, no core 43 M100 23:48 Bright, round 44 M85 23:49 Bright 45 M86 23:54 Bright 46 M84 23:54 Bright 47 M89 23:56 Bright 48 M87 23:58 Bright 49 M59 00:09 Bright 50 M60 00:09 Bright 51 M58 00:10 Bright 52 M90 00:14 Bright 53 M88 00:14 Bright 54 M91 00:14 Bright 55 M49 00:19 Bright 56 M61 00:22 Bright 57 M104 00:26 Bright,very beautiful 58 M68 00:31 Faint 59 M83 00:37 Faint 60 M5 00:44 Bright,very beautiful 61 M13 00:46 Very bright,very beautiful 62 M92 00:48 Bright,very beautiful 63 M57 00:55 Visible ring in 75? 64 M56 00:58 Bright 65 M29 01:03 Bright cluster 66 M39 01:07 Bright cluster 67 M71 01:11 Very beautiful 68 M27 01:13 Very beautiful, very bright 69 M12 01:19 Bright,very beautiful 70 M10 01:19 Bright,very beautiful 71 M107 01:24 Bright 72 M9 01:32 Bright 73 M14 01:35 Bright 74 M4 01:38 Bright,very beautiful 75 M80 01:41 Bright 76 M19 02:07 Bright 77 M62 02:20 Bright 78 M31 02:25 Very beautiful 79 M32 02:25 Faint, low in the horizon 80 M11 02:30 Very beautiful, very bright 81 M26 02:34 Bright 82 M16 02:37 Very beautiful 83 M17 02:39 Very beautiful 84 M24 02:41 Bright 85 M18 02:41 Bright 86 M25 02:42 Bright 87 M23 02:44 Bright 88 M8 02:47 Very beautiful 89 M20 02:47 Very beautiful 90 M21 02:47 Bright 91 M22 02:52 Bright 92 M28 03:03 Bright 93 M15 03:14 Bright and beautiful 94 M110 03:33 Faint 95 M7 03:57 Bright 96 M6 03:57 Bright 97 M75 04:27 Faint 98 M72 04:30 Faint 99 M73 04:31 Faint 100 M2 04:36 Bright,very beautiful