Telescope Reviews: Re: Lose the list....

Yes, it can be very nice, rewarding + surprising (of course) NOT to keep watching lists + checking one object after the other, but to sweep freely ! Perhaps ESPECIALLY in the structures of the MW in summer, with those lots of
objects crowded together ! The emotional aspect is stronger with accidential findings, of course. And what counts in fact IS the emotional aspect !

The bad thing about lists is: all these many objects together they seem to suggest to me: I have to scan thru them quickly (the better the more objects/sec :-) and completely (finally got the whole list, yeah), and tell people I saw them. This simply leads to boredom. Who cares if I saw NGC xyz, if thousands saw it before ? It's only my thought's an emotions and effort and experience that makes observing this thing special - to me !

The other way of achieving this is 'go for details !' Then it doesn't matter whether you've found it just by accident, or if you've searched for it (the hard way). The emotion comes from the detail + the time you spend on it, while being fascinated...

Well, so keep up your right philosophy ! :-)

Don't take me wrong if you feel in favour of the 'list-driven kind of observing'. That's ok of course - I use them as well, but it's the attitude while going through them (+ reporting on this) that makes the difference. And that is probably where you might agree, I guess...

Peter

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Edited by PeterSurma (07/12/08 05:41 PM)

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