[AJames]

Originally Posted by mickoking

Maybe us southerners can do a Bennet catalogue marathon?

Too right. Mr. Messier might have been the "Ferret From France", but for southern observers much of it is irrelevant if it doesn't include the best deep-sky objects visible to the Antipodean observer.
Personally I think the Bennett list is impossible to do, as you cannot observe all of them on one night at anytime during the year. My suggestion is to do a Messier Marathon, but replace the 8 missing deep-sky objects with southern ones.
For this I would include adding the following 24 bright southern objects instead, and deleting the various Messier objects north of +45 declination as;

NGC 104 / 47 Tucanae
NGC 253 / The Silver Coin Galaxy Sculptor
NGC 292 / Small Magellanic Cloud
NGC 300 Sculptor
NGC 2070 / The Tarantula Nebula

NGC 2451 Open Cluster Puppis
NGC 2516 Car
IC 2602 / Southern Pleiades Car
NGC 3114 Car
NGC 3132 Vela

IC 2391 Omicron Velorum Cluster Vel
NGC 3195 / The Grey Planetary Chameleon
NGC 3372 / Eta Carinae Nebula
NGC 3532 Car
NGC 3293 Car

NGC 3918 The Blue Planetary Cen
NGC 4755 Cru The Jewel Box
NGC 4833 Musca Globular
NGC 5128 Centaurus A : Cen
NGC 5139 Omega Centauri

NGC 5189 The Spiral Planetary
NGC 6231 Open Cluster Scorpius
NGC 6752 The Pavo Globular
NGC 6744 Galaxy in Pavo

Andrew