Bright starlit night - what can you identify?

[Jeanied]

I have my late OH's telescope in the cupboard - it hooks up to a computer. Haven't a clue how to use it However he did buy me some rather good binoculars many years ago

[Kristen]

The 32mm Nagler has a reasonable FoV, 82 degrees, possibly enough field of view to get it in as long as it is not a big Mak or SCT or even the normal Newtonians.

Its f5 which gives me a little more than 1.5 degrees I think?

Anyways, Andromeda fills slightly more of the eyepiece than the Seven Sisters - which is pretty scary to my brain; Andromeda is wider than the angular width of the Seven Sisters but 1,500 times further away - I fail to get my head around how wide that actually is ...
imagine approaching Andromeda in a space craft!

[WilliamD]

I have my late OH's telescope in the cupboard - it hooks up to a computer. Haven't a clue how to use it However he did buy me some rather good binoculars many years ago

Binoculars are brilliant for astronomy. Steady yourself against something on a crystal clear night and for certain things they can be better than a scope. Patrick Moore always recommended them.

Having said that I'm lucky enough to have quite a nice computerised scope and picking something by name on the handset and selecting 'goto' is a dream. Oh for dark skies!

[cptncrackoff]

Not too much light pollution here (even less when the street lights go off next week!)
.. if its clear I can normally see...

The Saucepan thing..
That bloke with the bow..
That bright Planet thing.