Contributed by AJ Crayon

           Saguaro Astronomy Club's first Messier Plus Marathon
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The Saguaro Astronomy Club's first Messier Plus Marthon was held on
September 26, 1981 at New River, Arizona.  The Messier Plus Marathon is
made up of 75 Messier Objects and 35 NGC objects from the Dyer list as
selected by Deep Sky chairman, Wally Brown.

The final results of the marathon follow.

 #   Name            scope

110  Greg Askin      8"f6 N
110  Wally Brown     8"f10SCT
110  Bob Buckner     12.5"f4 N
110  Ron Caciola     8"f7 D
 87  Scott Stiers    6"f7 N