Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:36:03 EDT
From: John Barra
To: spider
Subject: 2001 marathon

The Peoria Astronomical Society conducted its 2001 Marathon on March 24. We
had good skies until 12:30, then mostly cloudy until 2:30 with a few open
windows of dark sky at times.  At 2:30 we quit when it began to snow. Here
is the results of our partial marathon as report our egroup report of March
26:

"Messier Marathon Update:  Only 355 days to Messier Marathon 2002!

Here is the results of the partial marathon we were able to complete before
the snow started falling:

     Tim Lester (14 in. dome/computerized)         75
     John Barra (8 in. dob)             	   74
     Tim McGrath (10 inch dob)                     59
     Steve Russell (4 in. refractor)               55
     Dan Son (8 in. SC)                            45
     Rick Tennis (8 in. SC)                        35
     Greg Potts (8 in. SC)                         34

A great job on everyone's part.  The Milkway Seven all made it to breakfast
at Denny's.  We had up 20 people attending at some time."

John Barra