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Hi Enchilada
Your efforts in compiling the 350 list is greatly appreciated, especially in the several formats that you've put together, by Constellation and R.A. are the two lists that I will find most usefull. It will be interesting to go through the lists and cross check how many of them I've observed already ( and how many more to go ), can't help wondering if I don't have too many observing lists now.
If I may mention one small critique, in that you left out poor old Mensa, not one listing for this often overlooked costellation and there are a few doubles worth the trouble to find in it. Hartungs only lists one and The Cambridge Double Star Atlas and Sissy Haas' book, 4 each and Burnhams Celestial Handbook lists 12 and also, I think from memory, that Starry Night Pro 4.5 shows at least a dozen or so, will check more thoroughly later, what do you leave out to include something from Mensa is really more of an rhetorical question rather than one based on visual merit and any list that isn't open ended is bound to be arbitary.
From a personal perspective, including at least one object from each constellation would have been "nice".
Again, thanks for your time and effort in putting the lists together, I dips my lid to you Sir and I'll enjoy trolling my way through them.
Warm Regards
Jeff
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