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Hi everyone,

So, (yes, I am totally setup to fail here) the forecast for tonight is looking good here. After my trials and tribulations earlier this week (see oberving reports thread), what will be relatively easy stuff to find in Turn Left at Orion?

I am thinking around page 200, the ursa minor and ursa major stuff?

My garden is about 6x12metres with the usually two storey terrace and 2 metre fences, so can't do anything low to the horizon, and East/South East there is more light polution from Leeds/Bradford. Scope is 10 inch dob with 14mm eyepiece, so about x80 magnification, 0.85 degree actual field of view.

Thanks in advance, Stephen

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Hello Stephen,

sorry no-one got back to you in time for Saturday.

This is a recent thread that discusses how to go about planning a session, and contains links to various resources. There are many opinions of course - try out a few of the ideas and see which of them work for you. Most people use a combination. Turn Left at Orion is certainly a great guide to objects that are easier to find.

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I try and get a combination of targets - a few doubles (easy, challenging and coloured), a few clusters and then a couple of DSOs. On that basis I'd be looking at Albirio, Cor Caroli, M13 and then M81/M82.

I would always allow a little time to point your telescope randomly and see what is there. I found NGC 2169 (the 37 cluster) that way!

https://astro.catshill.com/what-do-i-look-at/

 

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