[glenc (Glen)]

This is the first of five posts on easy deep sky objects.
All of these objects are south of declination +40 so they are visible from all of Australia including Tasmania.

Open Clusters (OC) are the easiest deep sky objects for beginners to see. I think the best OC are:
M45, M37, M35, M41, NGC 2477, NGC 2516, NGC 3114, NGC 3293, NGC 3532, NGC 3766, NGC 4755, NGC 6231, M6, M7, M23, M25 and M11.

All of these are visible with binoculars tonight. The list above is in RA order.
When I started out I used a star map to identify the 20 brightest stars in the sky then I used a map and binoculars to find bright deep sky objects like these.