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Old 24-01-2015, 12:28 PM
el_draco (Rom)
Politically incorrect.

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You'll love saturn to bits. It'll be a small target but very jewel like. I am shocked nobody has said:
47 Tuc
Omega Centauri or any of a dozen other bright globulars
The Jewel Box
Tarantula nebula
Eta Carina
Any of the Southern star clouds
Phases of Venus
Alpha Centauri

etc, to the 5th power

Question is, do you have a star atlas? If not, there are many available online. Here is a big one:

http://www.deepskywatch.com/index.html (printable)

Its free but very powerful, You may want something lighter like Stellarium: http://www.stellarium.org/ (computer planetarium)

Failing that, listen to some of these mugs, they know a thing or 3...
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