Larry McNish's website https://calgary.rasc.ca/
Logs for the Messier Marathon
MM_Log.pdf One page checklist in The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide observing sequence
MM_Log_Harrington.pdf One page checklist in the Philip S. Harrington observation sequence. This one starts with M45, not M74 or M77, and I can see why he would do this. Includes page #s from the The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide
MM&Tx45Log.pdf This log is organized in observation order. Fill out the requested info at the top of the form so I can send you your award certificate(!), that is, if you also fill out a log report. You can also claim observations made during the marathon toward the HAS Texas 45 program. Just fill out the time and description fields for the indicated Texas 45 objects
Email me at [email protected] for the fillable log
Are you doing the Binocular Messier Marathon?
Craig Lamison has made us a great order for running the Messier Marathon using binoculars! Look for Craig and the Binocular/NSIG sign on the field. Fyi, the NSIG is our latest special interest group. For newbies ;)
Stellarium Tips & Scripts
StellariumCheatSheet.txt includes usage tips covered in Rene’s talk
MessierCatalogLabels4Stellarium.txt The full Messier Marathon catalog. Open this file and the other scripts below for instructions on how to load scripts into Stellarium
Practice the Messier Marathon one manageable region at a time with log sheet in hand:
Highly Recommended
Get your copy of “The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide” by Harvard Pennington from Sky Publishing: https://shopatsky.com/collections/calendars-almanacs
Rt-click the files attached below and select ‘Save link as...’ to download to your computer
