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Originally Posted by Harlequin
How many different objects in space are reasonable to explore during one night of dark skies and good weather?
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i know from experience, to start with you will wanto to look at every object in the night sky in one sitting.
I would suggest starting with something easy and then working out from that object.
If you are buying in the next few months (16" don't arrive till march), then orion is a great area for nebula and then around there are lots of double stars. also there are at least 10 galaxies that are strating to come up in the earlier morning.
i have starry night pro (a must i believe) and it is a computer simulation of what you see in the night sky.
Experience is everything. You really want to get good at a certain small patch of sky so that finding that object is easy and then you can study.
a few months down the track, then you start to realize you have the rest of your life to view the heavans and so spend long periods of time observing a certain object for 10's of minutes at a time.
i am watching mars a lot at the moment and also the stars in orion.
I plane to have a go at the leo triplets galaxies tonight!