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Old 29-10-2009, 11:16 PM
gary
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Big BAM Theory

Thanks all!

When we were at IISAC at Lostock, I took over from John late on the Saturday
night conducting sky tours on one of the 18" Obsessions.

I noted that John had loaded the file into his Argo Navis, which proved very convenient.
I started to TOUR on USER CATALOG objects that were above the horizon
and thus was presented with one "BAM" object after another. And they were all
good ones with satisfying "oohs" and "aahs" come from each observer who looked
through the eyepiece!

John, when I converted the list to an Argo Navis User Catalog, I thought to
myself I should give each object a prefix and not having read this thread,
chose the prefix of BAM.

I would recommend this name to you for a generic name for the list, rather than
Bambos, for several reasons, including -

a) It's much shorter to type
b) 'Bam' is a word, usually synonymous with "bang", which has exciting
connotations.
c) Many other catalogues have three lettter prefixes, such as NGC, UGC, SAO, etc.

Thanks again everyone and enjoy!

Best Regards

Gary Kopff
Managing Director
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