Now is a good time to look at the nebulae in the outer part of the Milky Way. I looked at some last night with a 12" Dobsonian using 26mm and 9.7mm eyepieces. A UHC filter was used for large emission nebulae and a deep sky filter for small nebulae and reflection nebulae. The attached tab delimited file is a list of the objects I saw. It can be copied to MS Excel.
Reference:
http://www.ngcic.org/steinicke/