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May I add my congratulations as well, Ivan... maybe you’d like to consider doing John Herschel’s Slough discoveries next?

No British record, Timo - I’m Canadian, but I don’t even think I have that here... there are some seriously good visual observers in Canada. I also like the Webb Society; I joined in ’93. I’ve been a...

Impressive totals, Timo, especially considering you probably do most of your observing from north of 55° latitude.

An absolutely stunning achievement, Steve... airfare-wise I figure it’ll cost you maybe $75 or so per NGC object if you have to go down to Oz to complete!!! ... as for myself, I continue to putter...

Davide!!!


"Il Galassiere" is an impressive visual observer. I checked out his website from your link... almost 18,000 deep sky objects observed and all as I understand it from Italy... I don't...

Hey ladies and gents

I am thrilled to see the variety of replies so far... each one fantastic in its own right.

Don: I'm mighty impressed with your observing career and what you have managed to...

Howard

Thanks for taking the time to reply and going through the effort of estimating your number of objects. 400 galaxy clusters???? Are these all Abell clusters or are you including rich galaxy...

Well, if you're mostly vertical... and breathing without mechanical assistance... YOU QUALIFY!!!!!

Actually, I just looked up about 25 members bios and found at least a half dozen younger than 40,...

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to reply so far! Freeman I seem to recall as a frequent contributor to Sky&Tel a couple of decades back, Corder I remember from the old Deep Sky. Not...

I'm curious here...

Going back to the mid-sixties, I would figure the average deep sky observer would have seen, at most, about 200 deep sky objects (the majority of the Messiers, maybe 100 of the...