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Summer Objects
Try to find these objects with your telescope.
  M57 - Ring Nebula
    Like a smoke ring in the heavens. It can be found in the parallelogram of Lyra. It is one of the brightest nebulas and can be seen in a small telescope.
  M13 - Globular Cluster
    Very Bright cluster in Hercules. One of the brightest.
  M92 - Globular Cluster
    Another bright cluster in Hercules
  HIP 95947 - Albireo
    A beautiful double star of blue and gold at the nose of the swan Cygnus
  NGC 6826- Blinking Panetary Nebua
    Although this is a tougher one to find I really love this one. If you look directly at it it appears as a star. If you look slightly to the side (averted vision) it turns to a fuzzy ball. It "blinks because your eye moves.
     
 
 
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Summer Constellations
Cygnus
  Cygnus, the Swan, is also known as the Northern Cross because of its distinctive shape. The tail of the swan is marked by the bright star Deneb, Arabic for "tail". Three fainter stars cross the line between Deneb and the head of the swan, Albireo. Cygnus flies southward along the summer Milky Way, and into the Summer Triangle.
   
Lyra
  Lyra's name is derived from the lyre, a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in classical antiquity and later. Lyra is a small constellation, but its principal star, Vega, is one of the brightest in the sky. Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by the Dragon Draco, the Greek hero Hercules, the little fox Vulpecula and Cygnus the swan.
Aquila
  Aquila is a constellation. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it is commonly represented as such. It lies roughly at the celestial equator. The alpha star, Altair, is a vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism.
Sagittarius
 

Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for the archer, and its symbol is (Unicode ?), a stylized arrow. Sagittarius is commonly represented as a centaur drawing a bow. It lies between Ophiuchus to the west and Capricornus to the east.
Scorpius
 

Scorpius is one of the constellations of the zodiac; the associated astrological sign is called Scorpio. Its name is Latin for scorpion. It lies between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east. It is a large constellation located in the southern hemisphere near the center of the Milky Way.
   
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