Observing report - March 15, 2009

So I decided to step out back last night and observe to get away from that light and to "practice" for the Messier Marathon. I figure if I freshen up last night and tonight, then Tuesday night I'm going to give it a try. It looks like I will have great weather so far. Except the moon, but it won't clear my trees until 3:30 or so and then it's just the last quarter. I'm going to do it just in case we don't have any clear skies when the moon's new. So anyway this is what I looked at last night, mostly off the top of my head. Tonight I will "plan" a little to pick up the ones that I missed or aren't real familiar with (Virgo), and the ones missed due to the moon.

M1
M13
M31/32
M33
M34
M35
M36
M37
M38
M41
M42
M43
M44
M45
M46
M47
M48
M50
M51
M52
M63
M67
M76
M78
M79
M80
M81
M94
M97
M101
M103
M106
M108
M109
M110

I also looked at NGC's

7789 - open cluster
457 - ET cluster
2392 - Eskimo
3877 - galaxy in UMaj
4565 - galaxy in Coma
3190 - Leo
2903 - Leo
3242 - Ghost of Jupiter