What You'll See

The moon, some of the planets, Galaxies, Nebulas, and star clusters.

 

In the summer we get to look at Ring Nebula, a literal smoke ring in the sky,
Dumbell Nebula, Alberio, the Beehive open cluster, and the great globular
cluster in Hercules, which in the eyepiece looks like a huge eye-filling view
of thousands of glittering diamonds.

 

In the winter we get to see the Andromeda Galaxy, a smudge in the sky
with the naked eye or binoculars in the telescope becomes a sweeping
panaorama of a large spiral arm galaxy with two companion galaxies
on it’s edge. In the winter we also get to see the Orion nebula. Visible
with the naked eye, in the telescope the view is extraordinary; the arms
of the nebula reach all the way across the view and the Trapezium, the
four stars in it’s center, are clearly seen.