Easy Targets to Observe If you have binoculars or a small telescope, check out these sky sights: The Moon—you can see individual craters and other surface features Mars—through a small telescope, you can spot its dark and bright areas and its polar caps Jupiter—through binoculars you can look for its four brightest moons Saturn—look for its rings through binoculars and the bright moon Titan through a telescope The Andromeda Galaxy—near the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia. It’s most visible from August through part of March; it is just barely visible to the naked eye The Orion Nebula—best
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