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- M81 - Bode's Maelstrom, Sprial in Ursa Major
- M82 - The Exploding Galaxy, Irregular galaxy
right next to M81
- M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy and its companions,
M32, and M110
- M33 - The Pinwheel Galaxy in Pegasus just
a few degrees away from M32
- M64 - The Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices
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- M57 - The Ring Nebula in Lyra, looks like
a tiny smoke ring in the sky!
- M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula, a bright, slightly
greenish planetary in Vulpecula near Cygnus
- NGC 7009 - the tiny Saturn Nebula in Aquarius
- NGC 7662 - the eerie Blue Snowball Nebula
in Pegasus
- NGC 2392 - The Eskimo Nebula in Gemini
- M1 - The Crab Nebula, famous, but faint supernova
remnant in Taurus
- M97 - The Owl Nebula in Ursa Major
- NGC 7293 - The Helix Nebula, a large but dim
relatively nearby planetary in Aquarius
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- Jupiter - equatorial belts, Galilean Moons,
and the Great Red (actually pinkish grey) Spot,
and occasionally a tiny moon shadow crossing
the surface of the planet
- Mars - polar caps, Sirtus Major, Terra Meridiani,
and dust storms
- Saturn - the rings, Cassini Division, and
maybe Titan
- Venus - nothing to see but the crescent shape
- Mercury - a very tiny, nondescript half moon
shape
- Uranus - a tiny blue green disk
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- Albirio - stunning blue and yellow binary
in Cygnus
- Hershel's Garnet Star - orange fiery ember
of a red giant in Cepheus, one of the largest
stars known - as large as the orbit of Saturn!
- Vega - bright, nearby blue white star of Lyra
- "only" 25 light years away
- Sirus - can't miss the brightest star in the
sky, located in Canis Major
- Betelgeuse - another red giant in Orion
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- M42 - The Great Nebula in Orion
- M17 - The Swan Nebula in Sagitarius
- M8 - The Lagoon Nebula in Sagitarius
- M20 - The Trifid Nebula - difficult to see,
but right next to the Lagoon
- M16 - The Eagle Nebula - The "Pillars
of Creation" just north of the Swan Nebula
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- NGC 884 and NGC 869 - The Great Double Cluster
in Perseus
- M45 - The Pleiades
- M36, M37, and M38 in Auriga
- M41 in Canis Major
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- The Sea of Tranquility
- The Sea of Serinity
- Copernicus - crater
- Clavius - crater
- Plato - crater
- Tycho - crater and its rays
- Apollo Landing Sites (especially Apollo 11
and Apollo 17's Taurus /Littrow Valley)
- The Apenine Mountains
- The Lunar Alps
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- M13 - the Great Globuar Cluster in Hercules
- M15 - compact globular in Pegasus
- M71 - small, but easy to find globular in
Sagitta
- M22 - bright globular in Sagitarius
- M4 - easy to find globular right next to Antares
in Scorpio
- M10, M12, and M14 all together in Ophiuchus
- M56 - faint globular in Cygnus almost halfway
between Albireo and Lyra
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- Sunspots
- Granularity - texture of the surface
- Light falloff - towards the limb
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