Deep-sky objects to target as a novice observer Sharpen your eye and build your knowledge of clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and more. By David J. Eicher | Published: October 1, 2024 ...

Of the 200 deep-sky objects in this constellation that are brighter than 13th magnitude, this is the only one that’s not a galaxy. It glows at magnitude 9.5 and spans 5.5′.

2 thoughts on “ Tracking Deep-Sky Objects ” Joshua says: March 14, 2025 at 12:06 am This reminds me of using SkyMap on a 286 with 4MB of RAM running Windows 3.1! Or ...

Here's an oddball open star cluster I bet you've never seen - it's catalogued as Pismis-Moreno 1. Lying at a high declination in the northern constellation Cepheus, it was discovered by Armenian ...

Northern Cepheus contains a strange nebula with a very long name. Gyulbudaghian's Nebula (JAI-al-boo-dag-ian) was discovered by Armenian astronomer Armen Gyulbudaghian in 1977 and its variability ...

The June sky is also perfectly placed to show a great variety of deep sky objects. As you stand facing south (in the northern hemisphere), the constellation Virgo (The Virgin) with its galaxies is ...

We finish our tour of the top five winter deep sky objects with undoubtedly one of the most wonderfully beautiful objects in the sky: M42, more popularly known as the great Orion Nebula.

The Arabs, however, imagined a pastoral scene in this section of sky, ... At about 9:30 p.m, this week, Cepheus is found at its highest in the northern sky, above the North Star.