Best Brightest DSO's

[GusterBuster27]

Hello, I recently managed to find the following objects with my 10" dob:

M15, M34, M35, M36, M38, M44, M45, M81, M82, M1, M31, M42, M43, M78, NGC 2071, M103, the double cluster, NGC 7789, M33 (barely), M37, M39, M52, and hyades.

I live in a bortle 6 area in the suburbs of San Francisco. What are some other, bright, DSO's that are good this time of year?

[Sunshine]

That's quite a haul! is this a new scope and, are you new to the hobby? if so you're working your way through DSO's like a champ. Have you heard of SkySafari? it's a great app for your phone/tablet that you can use to select all kinds of objects and the live sky view will highlight their locations as you hold your phone up to the sky. There are two version, it's the plus version which unlocks all the features costs a few dollars but well worth it, there you'll have thousands of objects ranging from double stars, clusters, nebulae etc. Just select what you want highlighted in the settings and i assure you you'll won't be short of things to chase down.

Edited January 21, 2021 by Sunshine