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Originally Posted by astrospotter
I will agree that just one is not really a fair question but if the question is posed then my own choice is clear.
For this northerner the #1 object that I had looked forward to for decades and then saw with absolutely no disappointment was the LMC.
Now I know you guys and gals don't consider that an object but having seen well over 2000 galaxies myself just because it is close, it is still to me 'an object'. So the question is were the 95 'objects' I picked out of the LMC last year just 'details' of the larger object? I pick out knots in M33, M31, Barnards Galaxy, M101 and all sorts of other things and those are generally considered as just one object. I have heard it said in this thread that the Milky Way is an 'object'.
So 'IF' the LMC counts as 'an object' then that is my pick. Well and above over M31, M33, M101 in which I have found many globs and clusters but those all show up as tiny dots where as in the LMC it is so darn close that you can get lost in it's details.
I only had one short week every night in mid March 2010 but the LMC to me was far and beyond THE most enticing and amazing 'object' of any I have seen and I await the day I can return to enjoy it once again.
Mark
aka astrospotter
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Yep, I'd put the LMC on the list. We tend to take it for granted. It's up there all the time for most of us.
Excellent call, Mark
