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Why use lists? The same reason people use GO-TO telescopes I suppose. Observing time is short and I want to see as many "different" objects as I can.

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Interesting! People are different, I guess. What I like most is surfing through the night sky by binoculars without any lists (just my atlas close at hand), stumbling over fuzzy patches. What the heck is this? Have'nt seen that before! Then I'm trying to identify star patterns, looking them up in the atlas, verifying, looking up, verifying... and finally: "YES!, that HAS TO BE Stock 23!"

OK, I only find a couple of new objects every night, but they are all new discoveries. No way I let GOTO or lists spoil that experience. OK - I'm a little exaggerating. Sometimes I go out on a hunt for all the GCs in Ophiuchus for example. But most of the time I go out discovering.

Thomas

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