What's about at the moment?

[Button Moon]

Hi Everyone

I haven't been on here for ages and I haven't had much time to do any skywatching either. I'm really new to this and so don't know what I'm doing much. What is out and about in the sky at the moment that I could try and find? I have a skywatcher skymax 127 supatrak reflector telescope (is this how you say it?) It has a 5" primary mirror and 1500mm focal length

[DOBBY]

clouds, clouds & more clouds... download a freebie prog. called Stellarium...it will show you what & where & when

[garethmob]

a nice one i view a few times is

m44 its in Cancer , the Beehive Cluster (nice widefield eyepeice

m57 the ring nebula its in lyra (below vega nice fuzzy

a major one to look at saturn its between spica and pheobe in virgo

[Adamski]

Stellarium is a must have for finding out what is available at any given time. It's a free download and easy to use.

[Astro Imp]

I can definitely reccommend Stellarium, get it Here

Another handy place to visit is Tonight's Sky, with this you can specify what type of objects you want to view and you will be given a list that is viewable from your location.

HTH

[Button Moon]

Thanks everyone and thanks for the links I will go and look at them

[Button Moon]

Hello

I've just downloaded stellarium and it looks good. It's saying paris as the location. Can you change this because I am in England

[Pete Presland]

yes you can,paris is the default setting,check this guide in the link

Quickstart guide - Stellarium Wiki

[Slangers]

Got some beautiful clouds here. All sorts of colours ranging from grey to grey. My telescope is covered in cobwebs.