Tom Hoffelder

47 years and counting of deep sky with no go-to scopes! Have completed 20 Messier Marathons, finding between 99 and 109 of the M objects. First marathon was in March of '77, when I found and viewed 101 Messier Objects, perhaps the first time anyone saw 100 of the objects in one dusk to dawn period. Details are in Walter Scott Houston's article of March 1979.