Deep Sky Tours (FoS)

You continue touring some excellent deep-sky objects this month with a look at more open star clusters and few superb double stars, which are surely are underappreciated objects for visual observers in this age of digital imaging. As a slightly more challenging sight, you learn to find a planetary nebula, a glowing cloud of gas ejected by a dying m...

Once you find the stars and constellations described in the 'Sky Tours' this month, you can try to find some of the so-called “deep sky sights”. The best and easiest objects this month are mostly open star clusters, which are groups of fairly new stars which formed together at the same time out of the same cloud of gas and dust. You also learn how ...