How to progress my observations in LP central

[rthorntn (Richard)]

Hello,

Apologies if this has been covered before.

First up my garden in Naremburn is pretty light polluted.

I have been checking out the planets because they are easy to find, and it's time to move on, but I am pretty confused on what I should try to look at now, what magnifications to use when trying to locate them and what I should expect to see visually...

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

Richard

Meade 10" SCT ACF OTA, EQ6

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

Use your lowest power eyepiece to search for nice globular clusters, I had a friends C9.25 around the other night and they were quite speccy in that SCT.
Smaller planetary nebulas as well.
Stellarium is for friend for this!
cheers
Graham

[rthorntn (Richard)]

Cool, thanks Graham,

I have a Vixen 40mm NPL Plossl Eyepiece - 1.25", would that be the go?

I have Astroplanner, so I guess I need to sit down and figure that out.

Is there a handy technique that I can use to figure out the lowest magnitude I can see with the 10" through my light pollution?

Cheers
Richard