West South West, what to see?!

[Fordos Moon]

Currently checking out M57, and wondering what else could I try and see with this restricted segment of sky I have tonight, ie from west to SSW?!

[Qualia]

Download Stellarium and you'll be able to judge for yourself in the furture, Fordos, but for now may I suggest M 56, move on to Albireo and slowly go through some of the beautiful clusters in Cygnus (just glide your scope slowly around the constellation) until you arrive at M 39, then sweep back down to M 27 and on to M 71. That should be quite enough excitement for one evening. Might be a nice idea to slow up and really take in just a sight or two and the best way I have found to do this is to sketch a little which helps train the eye and paces one's observation session.

[dtr42]

m 29 in cygnus is do able as is m71

[Fordos Moon]

Thank you chaps very much. Pretty sure I have just seen M27, albeit looks better in my 25mm than my 10mm?! ( both came with scope). With the 10mm it just looks grey and smudgy, less clear than the 25mm wide ep?!!

[dtr42]

excellent start mate , only another 108 messiers to go, good hunting also a lot of the nebs and galaxies look better in the wider eyepiece [andromeda for example is excellent in bins but high powered scopes can make it disapear as your looking through it into the core ] so your 25mm ep may be better for messiers , also the 10mm skywatcher ep isnt as ood as the 25mm although i find it alright for a starter ep

[Fordos Moon]

Thanks DTR that's made me feel like at least in not going mad!! Freezing cold but loving it!!

[Fordos Moon]

ps I do have Stellarium I forgot to check it out oops, but thanks for the tips :-)