Date: Sat March 22, 2015 at 05:43 pm
From: Pooja Tolia
Subject: Messier Marathon 19-20 March, 2015 - Result

We are glad to inform you that the 2 of us - Pooja Tolia and Rhushikesh 
Deshpande did a Messier Marathon on 19-20 March, 2015 from a Farmhouse at 
Saralgaon, near Kalyan, Mumbai, India and successfully located 103 M-objects 
manually with the telescope in a single night.

This was our first Messier Marathon.

The instruments we used were 8" Reflector on EQ5 (F/4.9) and 90mm Refractor 
(FL – 900mm).

The Objects we missed were - M31, M32, M110, M33, M74, M73, and M30.

The evening objects became extremely difficult to track because there was a 
fire lit by the villagers on the western and north-eastern side, because of 
which we missed most of the evening objects in the haze. Later the sky 
conditions improved and we could track 103 objects, again we lost 2 objects 
in the morning because of the morning glow.

Log was maintained by Pooja Tolia.

Regards,
 Pooja Tolia,
 (poojatolia.wordpress.com)
 Rhushikesh Deshpande.