Jay: There are a couple of 110 lists that are an easier transition than the jump the Herschel 400. http://seds.org/messier/xtra/similar/sac110bn.html This "best of the NGC" list is all visable from Utah, the southern most being Omega Centari which can be seen from Rush Valley. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/caldwell.html The Caldwell list is all sky and would require a trip down under to complete, but the first half is visable from here and worth the effort. Be aware that there are several versions of the H400. Some one Scandinavia rewrote the list to be more friendly to the northern European observer and published the ammended list under the same name. So if you google up the list you may not get the "official" one. Someone else came up with a second 400 for those who had done the first 400. DT --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Jay Eads <jayleads@gmail.com> wrote:
Just in case anyone can't tell my goal is to complete the Messier badge for next year's award and I'm doing pretty good with 45 items bagged. I also do hit some of the more interesting NCG's and will probably try to get the Hershel 400 after that.