This is part two of a two part article about what you can look at with your telescope. The first part looked at our own solar system and began with our closest neighbor, the moon.
This second part moves beyond our ‘neighborhood’ and identifies some of the interesting, more distant objects for you to observe. There are many objects you can see in the night sky that are some distance outside of our solar system. Because of this, they may be more difficult to see, but not impossible. Read the rest of this entry »