One Good Target
With Some Other Sights Worth Seeing While You’re in the Neighborhood. Each month Rick Gering picks one target, then leads you to the doubles, clusters and red stars around it, with directions and finder charts. Each issue is a PDF to print and take out. For the month’s events by date, see Rick’s Picks.
- Focal Plane (26)
- One Good Target (31)
- Rick's Picks (32)
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A Remarkable Group of Doubles in Cygnus: Chaple’s Arc and The Fairy Ring
September 2025 · With side trips to some other doubles and a couple red stars
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Globular Clusters Along the Base of the Teapot (M69-M70-M54)
August 2025 · With side trips to a couple doubles and a double-triple
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A Globular Cluster in Southern Ophiuchus (M9)
July 2025 · With side trips to a deep red carbon star and a trio of close doubles
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A Globular Cluster in Hydra (M68)
May 2025 · With side trips to a red giant in Corvus and a couple nicely-colored double stars
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Two Galaxies in Canes Venatici (M94 & NGC 4244)
April 2025 · With side trips to a colorful double star and a nearby subdwarf
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A Trio of Open Clusters in Northern Puppis (including a hidden planetary nebula)
February 2025 · With side trips to a couple easy doubles and supergiants
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Three Open Clusters in Auriga
January 2025 · With side trips to a couple useful asterisms, a few doubles, and yet another carbon star
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At the Still Point of the Turning Sky
December 2024 · Polaris, a few of its neighbors, and the echo of a delightful asterism