Objects to observe tonight

[matto113]

Tonight is going to be my first time observing with my new Celestron Skymaster 15x70 without some heavily light polluted skies. I got them last weekend and before all the rain this week I got to do a little observing but tonight I plan to see what I can find. Just looking to develop a little list of things to view tonight in my couple hour window of national forest skies. I know of the Pleides and Orion nebula of course along with the other major objects but is there anything I should try to view that might not be as well known?

Thanks in advance.

Matt

[Chris H]

M36, M37 and M38 all star clusters in Auriga, double cluster in between Perseus and Casseopia. Try for some galaxies such as the Andromeda galaxy and M81 & M82 in Usra Major.

[WayBig]

+1 for the clusters in Auriga.

Also, Jupiter of course, you should be able to pick out some of the moons.

[Chris H]

and M44 the Beehive cluster in Cancer.