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As a starting point I use the Bambo 600, have it sorted by month and RA and only the objects I have not yet observed.
Apart from that I have the Deep Sky Travel Atlas (Oculum publishing), it is quite water proof and list most objects within reach of my scopes. I look up the maps showing the areas of sky I can see well in a given night and go by the objects there. I also use it fo start hopping.
In future, once I have grown out of the Deep Sky Travel Atlas, I have now the Deep Sky Atlas (Oculum) it list the objects coded by visibility for 4", 8" and 12" and the visibility is derived from a software called Eye & Telescope which has quite unique algorythms for that.
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