From: TDFLM
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:34:53 EST
Subject: 2005 Marathon results
To: spider

Friday night kept us in our chiars and sent us to bed early because of the 
cloud coverage.  But the Saturday night viewing from Kissimmee Prairie Perserve 
SP, Floirda was great.  Sue Prill (8 inch dob, 13.8mm Meade wide field and 
15mm, telrad finder), David Brown (12 inch dob, 20mm Nagler, 9X50 finder) and 
Patty Mayer (8 inch dob, 28 mm and 25mm, telrad finder) of the Treasure Coast 
Astronomical Society worked along side each other viewing each object.  We were 
able to capture 52 when a very chilly Sue called it a night.  David and Patty 
stayed bit longer and added another 6.  It was our first attempt at a marathon 
and were pleased at the success we did have!   We had a hard time with M102, 
but Sue finally found the elusive galaxy!

We had 15 other club members joining us, but they were viewing and 
photographing other DSO's.  The skies at KP are so wonderfully dark, the sky 
impressed many who had never been there before!   On Saturday, the temperature 
got down to 41 and for Floridians, that is cold, but here's looking forward to 
next year.