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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:02
AM
Subject: Re: [backbayastro] The Caldwell
Objects
>
>I don't think he was "Chosen." I think
he sent this list, >unsolicited, to Sky & Telescope as a bit of a
lark.? He was >as surprised as anyone that it even got printed, and
more >surprised than most that it caught on.
You're right, Ted.? In fact, if one goes to
the "Caldwell Club" page on the Astonomical League Web site (),
they show this letter from Sir Patrick himself.
A Letter from Sir Patrick
Moore
SIR PATRICK MOORE CBE DSc (Hon) FRAS
Farthings
West Street
Selsey
England
The idea of the Caldwell Catalogue came to me one night,
after I had been observing the Moon (my own subject) and had looked casually
at the Perseus Sword-Handle. This has no Messier number. (Messier catalogued
nebulae as 'objects to avoid' during his comet searches, and in any case
limited himself to the northern part of the sky.) There are many Messier
clubs. Why not draw up a catalogue of bright nebular objects omitted by
Messier?
I did so - and more or less on the spur of the moment, sent
it off to Sky and Telescope. To my surprise it caught on, and by now
everyone seems to use the Caldwell numbers. I could not use M numbers, because
Messier and Moore begin with M - but my proper name is hyphenated
(Caldwell-Moore), so I used C.
All the Caldwell objects are within range of modest
equipment. They are arranged in declinations, so that to survey them all means
some travel - but that is not a problem nowadays.
Why not try a Caldwell competition? This is not a difficult
matter - and here is the list; try it and see how many of the C objects you
can locate. I wonder who will be the first observer to win a Caldwell
Certificate?
I wish you luck, and clear skies!
PATRICK MOORE
**
BTW, Caldwell Club certificate number 1 was appropriately awarded to Sir
Patrick Moore.
-- George '3'
?twforte@... wrote:
In
a message dated 3/5/2003 6:20:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Rob Schonk"
writes:
>There is a lot of
controversy as to why a primarily lunar observer would be
>chosen to
choose a list of deep sky objects....
>
I don't think he was
"Chosen." I think he sent this list, unsolicited, to Sky & Telescope as
a bit of a lark.? He was as surprised as anyone that it even got
printed, and more surprised than most that it caught
on.
Ted
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