Subject: Messier Marathon
From: Rafael Leao
Date: Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:09 PM

Good afternoon,

We manage to realize the marathon as planned, on the sequence a short 
description:

The first Messier Marathon of the Observatorio Municipal de Campinas Jean 
Nicolini was realized on 01/06/19 with weather conditions not to favorable 
(the day was hot and humid with some clouds). Te team was made by four 
persons: Rafael Leao, Marcia Leao, Julio Lobo and Rubens Azevedo. We used 
an 15" obsession classic dobsonian without any electronics (almost all 
star map reading was done by Marcia) with a nagler 26mm eyepiece. 
There was 6 hours of marathon (approximately from 18h to mid night) and we 
were able to catch 46 Messier Objects and 3 southern objects during the 
marathon, in the following order:

1)  M42
2)  M41
3)  M93
4)  M47
5)  M46
6)  M50
7)  M95
8)  M96
9)  M105
10) M65
11) M66
12) M94
13) M109 (very hard)
14) M86
15) M84
16) M49
17) M61
18) M104
19) M68
20) M5
21) M4
22) M80
23) M19
24) M62
25) M7
26) M6
27) M10
28) M12
29) M107
30) M9
31) M13
32) M22
33) M28
34) M8
35) M20
36) M21
37) M24
38) M23
39) M17
40) M16
41) M18
42) M69
43) M70
44) M54
45) M25
46) M57
47) Jewel Box - ngc 4755 - open cluster
48) Omega Centauri - ngc 5139 - globular cluster
49) Centaurus A - ngc 5128 - galaxy

It was a lot of fun and we are looking anxiously to do it again on 2020.

Best regards,
Rafael Leao.