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Originally Posted by Christian
I dug around sites and was hoping to find a list of “observable objects per magnification” but had no luck.
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No, you wont find anything along those lines. Mostly objects are given or listed by magnitude (brightness) and what magnitude you can see is determined by your aperture: 76mm in your case. Mick has already explained about magnification limits above.
Roughly, you should be able to see that Jupiter has 4 bright moons, that Saturn does have rings and to enjoy some of the larger and brighter deep sky objects such as open clusters and globular clusters. There are a few galaxies you should be able to detect as well - if they can be seen in binoculars you'll be able to see them too.
Get yourself some good charts or a good book with some finder charts in - there are oodles of books out there, just choose one or two that make sense to you - and start poking around the sky. Doesn't matter what size scope you have a little practise goes a long way.
