Messier Marathon 2000

In 2000, Full Moon will occur on March 20, 2000, and thus make the best Messier Marathon time unavailable. On the other hand, this will provide two nice opportunities to observe most of the 110 Messier objects, around New Moons on March 6.2 and April 4.8, respectively, so that observers will have a primary weekend on April 1 and a secondary on March 11; it is recommended to try the timely first, secondary opportunity also. This year, there will be a considerably good chance to combine the Messier marathon with an all-planet marathon, i.e. you can observe all solar-system planets during this night, on both dates. We will announce comets suitable for observing in the Messier Marathon nights here, probably again based on the JPL List of Currently Visible Comets.

Comet				RA (2000.0) Dec		RA (2000.0) Dec		mag
				March 11, 2000		April 1, 2000

Also, meteors from various showers may occur, and depending on your location, you may be able to observe the International Space Station, ISS or the Russian Space Station Mir.

Messier Marathon Events 2000

Please email me any scheduled Messier Marathon 2000 events for announce here.

If you have undertaken, or participated in, a Messier Marathon, 2000 or earlier, if not already done so, please email me your or your group's results, or the link to your results page, for inclusion in our Messier Marathon Results page!

Marathon Home

Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

Last Modification: 30 Mar 1999, 11:45 MET