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Old 03-02-2008, 04:18 AM
AJames
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Reminds me of the old joke objects, under "Lost Deep-Sky Objects"..

Messier 666 - A devil of an object to find in any aperture

Maybe it is in this room!!

The same source also had the old southern astronomer's joke...

"Did you hear about the northern hemisphere amateur astronomer who said he didn't mind doing all the observations during a Messier Marathon, in fact he thought it was a good challenge. However, the only thing he particularly objected too was having to carry his telescope and gear the 42 kilometres to the observing site to do it!"

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