A guide to observing deep-sky objects with binoculars, telescopes and more

You’ve studied Saturn , watched the Big Dipper wind its way around the North Star and you can find Orion’s Belt with your eyes closed. Now what? Once you’ve learned how to navigate the night sky, it’s time for some magnification, not to get stars in close up, but to glimpse galaxies , nebulas and distant clusters of stars . These are the so-called deep-space objects, or DSOs, which are not points of light like single planets or stars , but vast structures far beyond the solar system . …