I had a really great week last week. Managed to get 4, yes 4!, nights out with the scope and made some really nice catches. I have been fairly structured in my observing lately, focusing mainly on Messiers of which I now have recorded observations of 93 and as the reamining 7 are not visible at this time of year, I am engaging in doing something similar with objects within the Caldwell list, and last week was the serious start of that project. Anyways, I writes meself a little obs report (see here ....
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=52929 )
and I was pretty pleased with it. So I decided to venture into uncharted territory and posted said report on Cloudy Nights. Oddly I received only one comment and a then received a PM from that same person telling me that many many observers regard the Caldwell Objects list as an "Abomination" and people get "flamed" on CN for even mentioning it.
Has anyone else encountered this decidedly odd prejudice? As I understand it the list simply originated as an observing challenge, and I like the fact it honours in it's name Patrick Moore (whose middle name is Caldwell) who has done as much as anyone to popularise amateur astronomy and observational astronomy in the English speaking world.