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Object "Survivor" Prelims

Started by Bigdobs, 09/05/2005 03:12AM
Posted 09/05/2005 03:12AM Opening Post
I've seen this done on a lot of music forums, where they list the best songs of their favorite band, and vote all of them out until the best is left.
Here's how it works (sorry, only northern hemisphere objects for now, but maybe we can pull together a southern hemisphere one after). The apocalypse is 2 minutes away, and you can only view one Summer Deep Sky object because no planets are up. What do you choose?... I don't want to leave out anyones favorites, so I'll suggest a list, and the next will suggest their list. Make sure you do one for every season. Let's try to keep it to fifteen though.

Summer
1.M13
2.M5
3.M22
4.M8
5.M17
6.M11
7.M27
8.M57
9.The Veil Nebula Complex
10.M55
11.M92
12.M10
13.M12
14.M4
15.M14

Autumn
1.M15
2.The Double Cluster
3.M31
4.NGC 457
5.M2
6.NGC 7789
7.M52
8.NGC 663
9.M103
10.M33
11.NGC 7293
12.M76
13.NGC 7009
14.NGC 7662
15.The Ghost of Jupiter

Winter
1.M42/43
2.M41
3.M46/47
4.M36
5.M37
6.M38
7.M35/2158
8.NGC 2392
9.M79
10.M45
11.IC 418
12.M1
13.Hyades
14.M78
15.The Christmas tree Cluster

Spring
1.M3
2.M81/82
3.M65/66
4.M51
5.Virgo Galaxy Cluster
6.NGC 2903
7.The Coma Berineces Star Cluster
8.M44
9.M67
10.M94
11.M96,M95,M105
12.M97
13.M108
14.M106
15.M109

Rules:
1.Vote one out for each season
2.Poll is open for 48 hours
Thats pretty much it... We will have a battle of the final four at the end.
PS. I know most of you would scan the Milky way with binocs, but just go with the "best" DSO flow here.

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