Ten Best Objects To View With Your Night Sky Telescope

If you have a 60mm or 80mm night sky telescope these are the celestial objects you can easily view again and again.

You can get incredible views of the moon with just about any telescope. Each time you see the moon in the night sky the shadow's change and new objects become visible. You can view many of the major craters and mountain ranges.

Jupiter is a great planet to view through a small telescope. You'll be able to see a good amount of detail. Plus the night sky will reveal its four major moons circling Jupiter. At higher magnifications you can see two to four major bands.

When viewing Saturn in the night sky you should easily be able to see the disk and ring of Saturn. Using a more powerful telescope the rings will reveal to you the Cassini division.

The Great Nebula of Orion is one nebula you can see in the night sky with a small telescope. In the heart of the nebula, you can see the stars that cause the nebula to glow. They are organized in a small trapezoid shape.

Next are the Pleiades, also called the "Seven Sisters". They are a cluster of over 100 stars that are observable in a small sky telescope. It is best viewed using a wide field refractor.

Another cluster you can see with your telescope is the Double Cluster Perseus. They are located very close together creating a very impressive observation in the night sky.

Cancer is a cluster of over 200 stars, and visible in a small telescope. The view of over 200 stars in the night sky is an amazing sight, with a nice balance of stars.

The Sagittarius Region is best for a small wide field telescope. There are many bright nebulas in this region as magnificent as the Orion Nebula, plus many clusters and groups of stars that visible.

One of the best double stars in the night sky is Albireo (Bright Double) Cygnus. Through your telescope you'll see a glow of bright yellow and blue. Two million light years away is the Andromeda Galaxy. By using a small telescope you'll be able to see many details. It is one of the most impressive of the deep sky objects.