[kvmx (Nick)]

Originally Posted by gaseous

Joe is spot on - open clusters are your friend in light polluted skies...

This seems to be, open clusters have definitely been the most visible and easiest to acquire in the sky for me. Thank you for more recommendations, carbon stars have some interesting properties to them. I'm reading that they're "giant star(s) in a late phase of evolution", sounds like they're getting on in their age!