Marked 1000 deep sky objects on my star chart last night

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Read somewhere that the real challenge isn't marking them, it's actually seeing half of them from a typical backyard with light pollution. I've got maybe 300 logged myself but most are Messier objects that are easy to find in a suburban sky. The faint stuff like those Hickson galaxy groups are basically impossible for me without driving two hours out of town.

the_jason15d ago

Dang, 1000 objects? That's wild. I've got about 600 or so marked in my logbook but half of them are just doubles and variables I can barely see with my 8-inch Dob from the city. Man, light pollution is a killer, I swear I spent two hours last weekend trying to spot NGC 4565 and all I got was a faint smudge. You must have some seriously dark skies to hit a thousand.