Best Beginner / Intermediate Deep Sky Objects (DSO) for Visual / EAA Telescope!!! 40 Object List!!!

Did you get your first telescope? Or did you get a larger one? Looking to get into visually / EAA observing of some of the best deep sky objects around? This is the video for you!

This is a list of 40 of my favorite DSO by season that I have come to observe over and over again from my past 25 years of experience in the hobby!!!

Winter

m42 :Orion: - Mag 4 85x60min
m37 :Auriga: - Mag 5.59 14min
Double Cluster(NGC 884 / 869) :Perseus: - Mag 5.3 18min
ET Cluster(NGC 457) :Cassiopia: - Mag 6.4 20min
m31 :Andromeda: - Mag 3.36 178x69min
Blue Snowball(NGC 7662) :Andromeda: - Mag 8.3 .5min
Pleiades(m45) :Taurus: - Mag 1.5 120min

Crab Nebula(M1) :Taurus: - Mag 8.39 6x4min
Carolines Rose(NGC 7789) :Cassiopia: Mag 6.69 25min
Little Dumbbell Nebula(M76) :Perseus: - Mag 10.1 2.7x1.8min

Spring

M81/M82 :Ursa Major: - Mag 6.84 / 21.4x11.2 min Mag 8.05 11x5.1min
Beehive Cluster(m44) :Cancer: Mag 3.09 70min
Eskimo Nebula(NGC 2392) :Gemini: - Mag 9.19 .8x.7min
m65/m66/NGC 3628 :Leo: - Mag 9.22 7.6x1.9 Mag 9 10.2x4.6min
m35 :Gemini: Mag 5.09 40min NGC 2158
Whirpool Galaxy (m51) :Canes Venatici: - Mag 8.1  13.8 x 11.8min
Black Eye Galaxy(m64) :Coma Berenices: Mag 8.43 10.5x5.4

Owl Nebula (M97) :Ursa Major: Mag 9.8 3.4x3.3 M108
Markarian's Chain(m86) :Virgo: - Mag 8.81 11.5x8.3min
Needle Galaxy (NGC 4565) :Virgo: Mag 9.22 16.6x2.9min

Summer

m13 :Hercules: Mag 5.78 20min
m57 :Lyra: Mag 8.8 1.4x1.1min
Cats Eye(NGC 6543) :Draco: Mag 8.1 .4x.3min
m3 :Venatici: Mag 6.19 18min
m5 :Serpens: Mag 5.65 23min
Double Double :Lyra: Mag 5.0 2.2sec 2.4sec
m92 :Hercules: Mag 6.4 14min

m101 :Ursa Major: Mag 7.9 24x22.9min
NGC 6210 :Hercules: Mag 8.8 .3x.2min
m102 :Draco: Mag 9.89 6.3x2.8min

Fall

Eagle Nebula(m16) :Serpens: Mag 6.4 35x28min
Swan Nebula(m17) :Sagittarius: Mag 6 46x37min
Lagoon Nebula(m8) :Sagittarius: Mag 6 90x40min
Dumbbell Nebula(m27) :Vulpecula: Mag 7.09 8x5.7min
Blinking Planetary(NGC 6826) :Cygnus: Mag 8.89 2.1min
Wild Duck Cluster(m11) :Scutum: Mag 5.8 32min
Coathanger(CR 399) :Vulpecula: Mag 3.59 89min

Saturn Nebula(NGC 7009) :Aquarius: Mag 7.8 .5x.4min
Vail Nebula :Cygnus: Mag 5 300min
NGC 40 :Cepheus: Mag 10.6 .6x.6min



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