Contributed by A.J. Crayon Analysis of Messier Marathons, Observer Results (as of 2011) Telescope Results by Marathon. Found 110 Marathons NAME 3343 5 33 Don Machholz 1865 0 18 Tom Hoffelder 1223 1 14 Jack Jones 1260 0 13 Rick Rotramel 1095 0 11 Paul Lind 859 1 10 AJ Crayon 1000 1 10 Rick Tejera 855 1 9 George Robinson 615 0 8 Joan McGue 783 0 8 Wally Brown 688 0 7 Phil Harrington 734 0 7 Wayne Thomas 641 1 6 Andrew Cooper 644 0 6 Don Wrigley 619 0 6 Harshad Abhyankar 350 0 6 Tom McGrath 455 0 5 Bob Gardner 517 0 5 Craig Tupper 477 0 5 David Stine 514 0 5 David Trogon 543 2 5 Dennis O'Day 399 0 5 Hazel Lawler 541 0 5 Ken Sikes 468 0 5 Melvin Harrison 218 0 4 Abha Vaishampayan 340 0 4 Anne Marie Cooper 430 0 4 Bernie Sanden 333 2 4 Bill Ferris 401 0 4 Bill Lofquist 385 0 4 Bob Christ 398 1 4 Brian Page 425 0 4 Carter Smith 327 0 4 Chuck Shields 343 0 4 Daniel Butters 311 0 4 Dave Mitsky 433 3 4 David Fredericksen 339 0 4 David Hardinger 287 0 4 David Hatch 403 0 4 Dick Parker 419 0 4 Ed Kreminski 380 1 4 Howard Israel 410 0 4 James & Delia Brix 415 0 4 Jan Wisniewski 219 0 4 Jane&Morris Jones 371 0 4 Jennifer Keller 429 0 4 Jimmy Ray 385 1 4 Joe Goss 262 0 4 Jon Stewart-Taylor 377 1 4 Ken Reeves 399 0 4 Kevin Bays 431 0 4 Paul Dickson 425 0 4 Peter Argenziano 433 0 4 Salvador Aguirre 369 1 4 Steve & Rosie Dodder 265 0 4 Steve Chapman 390 0 4 Steve Dodder 434 2 4 Tom Polakis 424 0 4 Wade Holguin 242 0 3 Al Stiewing 283 0 3 Bob Buckner 316 0 3 Butch Miller 322 0 3 Carl Anderson 273 0 3 Charles Whiting 322 0 3 Claude Haynes 329 2 3 Dave Crum 308 0 3 Ed Flynn 311 0 3 Flynn Haase 322 1 3 Frank Kraljic 327 1 3 Gerry Rattley 286 0 3 Glenn Nishimoto 320 0 3 Howard Anderson 324 0 3 Jane Houston Jones 297 0 3 Jeff Tibb 265 1 3 Jim Gutman 157 0 3 Jim Stevens 297 1 3 Jim/Delia Brix 318 1 3 John Evelan? 268 0 3 John Matthews 320 0 3 John Moschinger 305 0 3 Jonathan Bein 320 0 3 Ken Shaver 243 0 3 Kshitija Kelkar 325 1 3 Matt Spinelli 294 1 3 Mike Ramirez 321 2 3 Paul Clark 321 0 3 Ray Heinle 323 0 3 Ray Vorbeck 327 0 3 Richard Payne 310 0 3 Rod Gallagher 317 0 3 Roger Hutchins 287 0 3 Ron Caciola 310 0 3 Scott Kroeppler 215 0 3 Scott&Heather Saari 255 0 3 Sheryl Gambordella 321 0 3 Steve Bell 326 1 3 Steve Smith 262 0 3 Thomas Watson 302 0 3 Tim Jones 319 0 3 Tom Reiland 157 0 3 Tushar Purohit 293 0 3 Willie Strickland 215 0 2 Adam Block 212 0 2 Adam Bloomer 201 0 2 Amar A. Sharma 0 0 2 Babak A.Tafreshi 204 0 2 Bob Birket 178 0 2 Brent Archinal 179 0 2 Brent Jacobs 208 0 2 British group 214 0 2 Bruce Anderson 200 0 2 Bruce Miller 200 0 2 Bruce Monte Sr. 171 0 2 Christopher Vedeler 218 1 2 Chuck Akers 207 0 2 Dan Gruber 183 0 2 Dave Tolley 195 0 2 David & Katie Kroeppler 178 1 2 Dawn Schur 209 0 2 Deborah Cooper 213 0 2 Denis M. Legault 85 0 2 Denny Mishler 118 0 2 Don Kemper 151 0 2 Dr.Vishwanath Jigjinni 163 0 2 Ed Kotapish 199 0 2 Edward Eastburn 220 2 2 Frank Pino 90 0 2 Gale Cumberledge 215 0 2 Gary Gardner 210 0 2 Girish Vaze 218 1 2 Gordon Pegue 182 0 2 Greg Askins 216 0 2 Greg Kettell 58 0 2 Hrishikesh Kulkarni 220 2 2 Jack Gelfand 202 0 2 James Liley 207 0 2 Janna Scott 40 0 2 Jay R. Freeman 174 0 2 Jayesh Mutha 3 0 2 Jeff Ball 204 0 2 Jeremy Perez 152 0 2 Jim Deck 218 0 2 Jim McGaha 215 0 2 John A. Bein 180 0 2 John Barra 211 0 2 John Bartels 176 0 2 John Holmquist 179 0 2 Jon Koester 129 0 2 Jon Milan 215 1 2 Jon Zander 219 1 2 Joseph Mancilla 209 0 2 Kevin Jones 175 0 2 Kevin LeGore 220 2 2 Kirk Alexander 220 2 2 Lela Rossette 185 0 2 Lynn Blackburn 114 0 2 Matt DeMartino 184 0 2 Matt Luttinen 216 0 2 Micah Abel 171 0 2 Michael Connelley 216 0 2 Michael Evans 204 0 2 Michal Rottenborn 198 0 2 Mike Lercy? 220 2 2 Mike Rossette 109 0 2 Morris Jones 218 0 2 Nicholas Biver 127 0 2 Nick DeMesa 218 0 2 Paul Gray 186 0 2 Paul Hart 219 1 2 Paul Money 153 0 2 Peter Nicholl 156 0 2 Randy Peterson 192 0 2 Rich Kaiser 208 0 2 Rich Neuschaefer 220 2 2 Robert Davidson 197 0 2 Rodger Blake 164 1 2 Russell F. Pinizzotto 211 0 2 Sam Herchak 215 0 2 Scott Leach 193 0 2 Scott Saari 165 0 2 Scott Tannenhill 171 0 2 Sheffield Ast Soc 144 0 2 Sierra DeMesa 207 0 2 Stephen Alden 34 0 2 Stephen Peacock 119 0 2 Stephen Perry 219 1 2 Steve Barkes 209 0 2 Steve Childers 114 0 2 Steve Conner 89 0 2 Steve Dermer 207 0 2 Steve Gifford 220 2 2 Thad Robosson 214 0 2 Tom Mozdzen 78 0 2 Tom Pierson 90 0 2 Vito Pontarelli 108 0 1 "Group" 109 0 1 /2 Jimmy Ray 103 0 1 Aaron Prillama 24 0 1 Abhishek Waghmare 82 0 1 Adam Sunshine 61 0 1 Adwait Bhagwat 97 0 1 Akarsh Simha 102 0 1 Akkana Peck 55 0 1 Akshay Soman 87 0 1 Alan Figgatt 102 0 1 Alan Strauss 104 0 1 Alex Attanasio 97 0 1 Alexander Comportie 57 0 1 Alice Jung 52 0 1 Allan Meyer 45 0 1 Alok Deshpande 109 0 1 Alonzo Villarreal 53 0 1 Amol Kankaria 106 0 1 Andess-Rick Carlson 71 0 1 Andrew Goodwin 102 0 1 Ann Bruun 17 0 1 Ann and Lina 106 0 1 Anna Whitlow 102 0 1 Anne Beeby 100 0 1 Anurag Shevde 102 0 1 Aronne Merrelli 82 0 1 Arto Oksanen 63 0 1 Audrey Evelan 106 0 1 Balazs Csak 104 0 1 Barry Wolfe 109 0 1 Bernard Miller 70 0 1 Bharat Nowal 109 0 1 Biggs & Foxman 0 0 1 Bill Arnett 108 0 1 Bill Buckingham 109 0 1 Bill Peters 79 0 1 Bill Smith 107 0 1 Bob Bortner 32 0 1 Bob Boston 108 0 1 Bob Davidson 108 0 1 Bob Frybarger 25 0 1 Bob Traube 110 1 1 Bob-Pat Davidson 105 0 1 Bobby Martin 107 0 1 Bogar Castro 104 0 1 Brandon Feldman 63 0 1 Brandt Bechtold 63 0 1 Brian Davis 95 0 1 Brian Jackson 44 0 1 Brian Pelletier 96 0 1 Brian Reasor 109 0 1 Brian Skiff 109 0 1 Bruce Walsh 68 0 1 Bryce McFarland 108 0 1 Cal Drake 100 0 1 Carl Lancaster 106 0 1 Carl Soderland 103 0 1 Carter-Thaxton Smith 105 0 1 Charles M. Eye 9 0 1 Charles Messier 100 0 1 Charlie Oostdyk 110 1 1 Charlotte Amat. Ast. Union Co 56 0 1 Chetan Reddy 109 0 1 Chris Anderson 109 0 1 Chris Brownewell 100 0 1 Chris Hanrahan 55 0 1 Chris Johnson 106 0 1 Chris Lancaster 105 0 1 Chris Myers 95 0 1 Christopher Fioretti 87 0 1 Christy Edwards 104 0 1 Chuck Edwards 98 0 1 Chuck Musante 108 0 1 Chuck Young 87 0 1 Cindy Wood 78 0 1 Clark Rogers 57 0 1 Clayton Sikes 14 0 1 Clinton Tower 106 0 1 Craig Colvin 108 0 1 Craig Kulesa 107 0 1 D Turner & G Golden 98 0 1 Dan Lamson 45 0 1 Dan Son 109 0 1 Dan Ward 98 0 1 Darice Frey 102 0 1 Darrell Edwards 104 0 1 Darrin Strosnider 50 0 1 Darryl Stanford 64 0 1 Dave Brennen 108 0 1 Dave Dockery 100 0 1 Dave Ewing 109 0 1 Dave Healy 104 0 1 Dave Jeff Trogan 107 0 1 Dave Lehnen 101 0 1 Dave Merrelli 64 0 1 Dave Moses 109 0 1 Dave N Minnick 109 0 1 Dave Radosevich 108 0 1 Dave Steiner 108 0 1 Dave Trogan 103 0 1 David Bird 25 0 1 David Bonnell 58 0 1 David Brown 70 0 1 David Crum 107 0 1 David Gale 110 1 1 David Goldwater 74 0 1 David Green 63 0 1 David Ingram 108 0 1 David J. Trogan 98 0 1 David Kroeppler 109 0 1 David Levy 110 1 1 David M Douglass 58 0 1 David Mitsky 60 0 1 David Sanders 110 1 1 David Shafer 22 0 1 Dawn Jenkins 97 0 1 Dean ?? 78 0 1 Dean Corn 110 1 1 Dean Ketelsen 64 0 1 Dean Newton 108 0 1 Dean Oertle 84 0 1 Dennis Elarton 100 0 1 Derek Youngson 110 1 1 Derrick Lim 41 0 1 Dhruv Paranjapye 97 0 1 Diane Hope 105 0 1 Dick Tobiason 88 0 1 Dirk Panczyk 106 0 1 Don Farley 100 0 1 Don Jones 103 0 1 Donald Kelly 54 0 1 Donna Blosser 56 0 1 Doug Allen 110 1 1 Doug Lang 60 0 1 Doug Ostroski 106 0 1 Doug Simons 110 1 1 Doug Smith 104 0 1 Douglas Rudd 109 0 1 Douglas Smith 109 0 1 Dr. S. Aguirre 60 0 1 Dr.Neelima Thatte 106 0 1 Ed Beggy 20 0 1 Ed Piggott 58 0 1 Elmer Steingass 104 0 1 Eric Gray 102 0 1 Eugene C. Dolphin 96 0 1 Frank Doepper 109 0 1 Frank J. Mraz 30 0 1 Frank O'Gorman 109 0 1 Frank Phipps 85 0 1 Fred Rains 50 0 1 Freddie Franqui 105 0 1 Gabor Santa 102 0 1 Gabriela Berenice and Diaz Cortes 95 0 1 Gene Fioretti 109 0 1 Geoff Babcock 110 1 1 George Gilbart-Smith 107 0 1 George Kohl 108 0 1 Gerald Rattley 77 0 1 Gerard Gendron 14 0 1 Gerry Andries 109 0 1 Gerry van Dyk 105 0 1 Gilbert A. Esquerdo 106 0 1 Glenn Sanner 29 0 1 Goran Stefanovic 108 0 1 Grant Klassen 106 0 1 Grant Martin 51 0 1 Greg & Mandy Kettell 107 0 1 Greg Haider 34 0 1 Greg Potts 105 0 1 Greg&Amanda Kettell 57 0 1 Grizelda Celaya 107 0 1 Guillermo Molina Perez 110 1 1 Harold Judson 21 0 1 Hartmut Frommert 109 0 1 Harvey Hitchcock 105 0 1 Heather McFarland 101 0 1 Herbert Gubo 110 1 1 Hinrich Eylers 103 0 1 Hrishikesh Joglekar 107 0 1 Ian Hewitt 70 0 1 Indrajit Nanda 106 0 1 Isaac Silver 104 0 1 J Bein 75 0 1 J D Maddy 101 0 1 Jack Zeiders 108 0 1 Jack/Carol Farmer 57 0 1 Jacob Sikes 94 0 1 Jagadheep D. Pandian 106 0 1 Jake Turner 69 0 1 James Brix 107 0 1 James Hoy 62 0 1 James Larson 100 0 1 James Squair 110 1 1 James-Delix Brix 92 0 1 Jamie Lines 0 0 1 Jane Houston 104 0 1 Jane Houston & Morris Jones 88 0 1 Janet Merrelli 108 0 1 Janos Gabor Kernya 106 0 1 Janos Karnya 105 0 1 Jason Harris 32 0 1 Jayant Damle 108 0 1 Jeff Jenkins 71 0 1 Jeff Layfield 108 0 1 Jeff/Julie Trogan 110 1 1 Jerry Gaber 104 0 1 Jerry Wolczanski 109 0 1 Jim Brunkella 107 0 1 Jim Glass 109 0 1 Jim Hannum 76 0 1 Jim Hendrickson 39 0 1 Jim Knott 106 0 1 Jim Sapp 104 0 1 Jim Shedlowsky 110 1 1 Jim-Robin Cassidy 100 0 1 Jirka Kubanek 109 0 1 Joe Bergeron 109 0 1 Joe Cambala 74 0 1 Joe Colaccino 76 0 1 Joe Macke 47 0 1 Joe Murray 85 0 1 Joe Selleck 103 0 1 Joe Stieber 76 0 1 Johannes Hernsdorf 35 0 1 John Avellone 104 0 1 John Barra & Tim Lester 106 0 1 John Cassella 104 0 1 John Davis 41 0 1 John Doll 103 0 1 John Durham 44 0 1 John Hicks 84 0 1 John Kannarr 62 0 1 John Krawczak 99 0 1 John Land 65 0 1 John R. Moore 104 0 1 John Welsh 107 0 1 Jon Messick 106 0 1 Jonathan Yount 102 0 1 Jose de Jesus Munoz Gonzalez 107 0 1 Joseph Cambala 109 0 1 Joseph Converse 107 0 1 Joshua V. Nelson 98 0 1 Julian Shull 109 0 1 Julie & Jeff Trogan 83 0 1 Kanad Mandke 69 0 1 Karen Lynn Maddy 108 0 1 Keith Schlottman 49 0 1 Ken Black 102 0 1 Ken Mallard 110 1 1 Ken Schmidt 109 0 1 Ken Wilson 106 0 1 Kenneth Adler 108 0 1 Kevin McKeown 29 0 1 Kim Bieler 101 0 1 Klaus Veit 29 0 1 Kyle Sikes 106 0 1 Larry Arbeiter 108 0 1 Larry Brown 50 0 1 Larry Cash 106 0 1 Larry Cotton 108 0 1 Larry Martinson 29 0 1 Larry Oyster 98 0 1 Len Bradley/Bob Havner 75 0 1 Leon Knott 84 0 1 Leonid Tkachuk 101 0 1 Les Reese 68 0 1 Linda Henneberg 52 0 1 Lou Roberts 103 0 1 Lowell Samples 97 0 1 Lu Russ 106 0 1 Lyn Bond 108 0 1 M. Aaron McNeely 20 0 1 Madhura Gokhale 53 0 1 Manasi Deshmukh 107 0 1 Manfred Alber 107 0 1 Manfred/Diane Alber 22 0 1 Manik Limaye 95 0 1 Marc Chouinard 62 0 1 Marc Daniels 101 0 1 Marcel Geltner 66 0 1 Marcelo Garcia 11 0 1 Marci and Bob Boston 96 0 1 Margaret McCrea 93 0 1 Marie Bruhns 87 0 1 Mark Deprest 109 0 1 Mark Dunnett 103 0 1 Mark E. Miller 101 0 1 Mark Hansen 104 0 1 Mark Stephenson 97 0 1 Mark Taylor 104 0 1 Mark Wagner 110 1 1 Marshall Dailey 108 0 1 Martin Hale 104 0 1 Martin Pieczonka 110 1 1 Martin Puskas 109 0 1 Marty Pieczonka 21 0 1 Mary Keller 22 0 1 Matthew Spinelli 100 0 1 Matthias Juchert 106 0 1 Maurine Hoffman 107 0 1 Melinda Ketelsen 72 0 1 Michael Douglas 69 0 1 Michael Grindle 108 0 1 Michael Lawson 106 0 1 Michael Lucas 109 0 1 Michael Mathers 78 0 1 Michael Mills 59 0 1 Michael Portuesi 64 0 1 Michael Slaven 50 0 1 Michael T. Clancy 101 0 1 Michal Bares 65 0 1 Michelle Butters 107 0 1 Miguel Ibarra G 106 0 1 Mike Luckow 64 0 1 Mike Nakamura 101 0 1 Mike Pendley 12 0 1 Mike Thompson 102 0 1 Mike Walker 56 0 1 Mike/Debby Luciano 105 0 1 Milt Henderson 101 0 1 Milt Wilcox 51 0 1 Miwa Morita 68 0 1 Naveen Nanjundappa 99 0 1 Neil Ruien* 106 0 1 Neil Rulien 83 0 1 Neta Apple 70 0 1 Neville Cole 93 0 1 Nikhil Belsare 93 0 1 Nilesh Desai 70 0 1 Nilesh Puntambekar 100 0 1 Nilima Thatte 102 0 1 Paco Fernandez 109 0 1 Padraig Houlahan 108 0 1 Paolo Beradi 50 0 1 Parimal Dave 51 0 1 Pat Heimann 105 0 1 Pat Moore 108 0 1 Patrick McDonald 58 0 1 Patty Mayer 107 0 1 Paul LeFevre 108 0 1 Paul Maxson 68 0 1 Paul&Mary Kohlmiller 18 0 1 Penny Fischer 107 0 1 Pete Eschman 28 0 1 Peter Ridout 106 0 1 Phillip Hosey 48 0 1 Prakash Nitsure 62 0 1 Ques Zelaya 92 0 1 R. Mark Elowitz 72 0 1 Rahul Sangole 94 0 1 Rahul Zota 41 0 1 Rakesh Shroff 74 0 1 Randall Stark 36 0 1 Randy Harry 93 0 1 Randy Ocheltree 108 0 1 Raul Madero 107 0 1 Ray Hazelwood 109 0 1 Ray Horneman 96 0 1 Raymundo A Jesus Herrera 60 0 1 Regina Lawless 109 0 1 Rich Page 104 0 1 Rich Richins 110 1 1 Richard Richins 87 0 1 Rick Avery 108 0 1 Rick Balbridge 110 1 1 Rick Hull 107 0 1 Rick Scott 101 0 1 Rick Steiner 35 0 1 Rick Tennis 34 0 1 Rob Nyberg 101 0 1 Rob Smalley 104 0 1 Robert Bird 59 0 1 Robert Burgess 40 0 1 Robert Gilroy 67 0 1 Robert Hutchins 104 0 1 Robert Kearney 104 0 1 Robert Martin 78 0 1 Robert Stewart 108 0 1 Robert Thompson 96 0 1 Rod Lowe 82 0 1 Rodolfo Ferraiuolo 65 0 1 Roger Walters 45 0 1 Rohit Belapurkar 102 0 1 Roland Sharer 102 0 1 Ron Cook 109 0 1 Ron Hatcher 106 0 1 Ron Humphrey 35 0 1 Ron Mickle 103 0 1 Ronald Stoyan 79 0 1 Rosie Dodder 67 0 1 Roy Chancellor 98 0 1 Roy Uyematsu 106 0 1 Russell Peterson 85 0 1 Rusty Keeney 57 0 1 Ryan Sikes 104 0 1 Sagar Gokhale 48 0 1 Sagar Jogalekar 110 1 1 Sam Rua 102 0 1 Sameer Thakur 99 0 1 Sarang Oak 58 0 1 Satish Pagare 67 0 1 Scott Parker 56 0 1 Scott Smith 0 0 1 Scott Stiers 102 0 1 Scott/David Kroeppler 109 0 1 Sean David Childers (15) 100 0 1 Shailesh Sansare 107 0 1 Shane Fortune 108 0 1 Shane Tillotson 107 0 1 Shawn & Jenny Clark 108 0 1 Shawn Clark 62 0 1 Sheri Cahn 109 0 1 Sid Leach 109 0 1 Stephan Lalonde 107 0 1 Stephanie Garko 104 0 1 Stephen Horan 109 0 1 Stephen Tonkin 103 0 1 Steve Condrey 109 0 1 Steve Jaynes 105 0 1 Steve McAllister 107 0 1 Steve Palmer 91 0 1 Steve Perry 107 0 1 Steve Ratts 55 0 1 Steve Russell 104 0 1 Steve Thomas 106 0 1 Steve White 104 0 1 Steven Dodder 67 0 1 Steven White 66 0 1 Stewart Cramer 52 0 1 Sue Prill 59 0 1 Susan Barbetti 110 1 1 Swapneel Kore 91 0 1 Tamara Owens 108 0 1 Team at Princeton 108 0 1 Ted Dunphy 28 0 1 Ted Treiber 109 0 1 The Alber's 102 0 1 Thomas Jaeger 109 0 1 Tim Hunter 84 0 1 Tim Hunter/Dan Knauss 101 0 1 Tim Inglish 62 0 1 Tim Kenyon 75 0 1 Tim Lester 106 0 1 Timothy Geoghegan 100 0 1 Tkachook Leonid 90 0 1 Tom McDonough 109 0 1 Tom McGowan 39 0 1 Toni Wiles 101 0 1 Tony Cecce 101 0 1 Tony George 50 0 1 Tony Marcotte 109 0 1 Tony Ortega 70 0 1 Tony Velasques 105 0 1 Tony White 47 0 1 Trent Gutterdum 69 0 1 Troy Johnstone 107 0 1 Tyler Lancy 78 0 1 VS Hagen amateurs 42 0 1 Wayne Powers 106 0 1 Wes Edens 103 0 1 Wesley Stone 79 0 1 Will Golz 96 0 1 Wolfgang Howurek Total observers 658. Author: A.J. Crayon http://messier.seds.org/xtra/marathon/Observer_results-2011.txt