I was able to view all of the original 100 with that scope at the Peoria Astronomical Society's dark-sky site 12 miles west of Peoria, Illinois. My theory proved to be correct. I was able to find another 100 objects as bright and remarkable as Messier's 100 using the same parameters. My list is shown in Table 2 . Wherever possible I used The Deep Sky Field Guide to Uranometria 2000.0 by Cragin, Lucyk and Rappaport for statistical information.
Magnitudes vary greatly from source to source.
Therefore I used visual magnitudes rounded off to the nearest one-half. The first 10 objects I chose were the M101 to M110 included in most Messier lists. These objects were not discovered nor probably confirmed by Messier. However, they are remarkable enough to be included in anybody's list. My list contains 26 open clusters brighter than M26 in Scutum, the dimmest Messier with a magnitude of 8.