Re: Beginner quick guide to easy-to-find objects

Grumps <grummps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks all. I'll try for Saturn, that would be get the biggest 'wow'. Living in a modern housing estate surrounded by houses, and not being able to transport the scope, will Saturn get high enough for me to view?

Yes, although you might be better off regarding it as a pre-dawn object if altitude will be a real problem. Tonight it is just (as in a few Moon diameters) south of the Moon, and just east of the Beehive Cluster (M44). The latter will be largely washed out by the proximity of the Moon id there is any moisture in the air and, anyway, it is better in binocs than a telescope (as are the Pleiades).

Best,
Stephen

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