mttafire
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I viewed m13 last night..Great sight..What do you think is the most awsome dso..The ones that are "relatively" easy to see. Mine imho is m13 or orions nebula's.
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John Jarosz
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I like M57
John
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David Pavlich
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I would say the Orion Nebula is always near the top of everyone's list. If you're lucky enough to have the horizon, the globular cluster Omega Centauri would have to rank up there at the top. M13 is another favorite of mine. M31 is a neat target because of its shear size and the fact that it's relatively close.
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OffTheCouch
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M22 and M42.
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Happy-Idiot
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Most impressive Binocular IMHO is M45 Pleiades, small scope IMHO is M42 Great Orion Neb, medium scope IMHO is M57 Ring Neb, Large scope IMHO is M33 Pinwheel Galaxy, impressive imaged dso object IMHO is M16 Eagle Neb and MyCn18 an Hourglass Nebula that looks like Gods eyeball. All impressive but my favorite is M1 Crab Neb and NGC 7662 Blue Snowball i like the challenge.
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edwincjones
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#1 M45
#2 M31 with 32 & 110 in same FOV
#3 M42
in large binoculars.
In telescope, Omega Centauri beats M13.
Naked eye, the Milky Way and/or Crux and Coal Sac.
edj
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gubbenimanen
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The Milky Way!
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BillFerris
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M17, the Swan Nebula, always makes my heart skip a beat.
Regards - Bill in Flag
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Timothy O'Connor
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For me, its Eta Carinae nebula...
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FirstSight
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For a single object visible in the Northern Hemisphere, globular cluster M13. But in aggregate, the incredible swarm of galaxies in the Virgo region, starting a few degrees behind Denebola (rearmost star in Leo) is the most impressive - if you're under mag 5.0 skies or better, you can wander around this region and frequently come across 2, 3, 4, or more at least moderately bright galaxies in a medium-widefield eyepiece all at once. If you think about the enormous scale of distances to, across, and between multiple galaxies you're taking in all in the same field of view, it's approaching infinity for any purposes of human comprehensibility.
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matt gray
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With a dark sky, and a scope over 10", I'd vote for M51.
Otherwise it's got to be M42.
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Jim52
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I'm partial to the Lagoon Nebula,M8. It's not as impressive as the Orion Nebula, but at least it's warmer out! Also partial to M1 for different reasons. It's NGC number is the year I was born! Jim
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SaberScorpX
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M42 or M8, depending on time of year.
Eta Carinae from more southern lats.
Plenty of runners-up.
Stephen Saber
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jack45
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M31 I find to be very good viewing! Then M13,M82 and so on!
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David Knisely
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For me, it depends. In binoculars or my 100mm f/6 refractor, its the Pleiades, but in the telescope, the Double Cluster always is a real crowd pleaser in a variety of apertures. Clear skies to you.
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llanitedave
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It changes from night to night. Tonight, I really enjoyed letting M-13 drift across the field of my 10" at 225x. With the strings and trails of stars standing out over the background glow, it looked almost alive, like a luminous, pulsating jellyfish
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novbabies
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AAARRRRGGGGHHHH ! ! ! ! ! How can you pick just one? They're all so majestic in their own separate ways!
Although I'd agree with Bill re M17, since for me this was a watershed event. I'd just gotten my very first narrowband filter ever, a Lumicon UHC. My whole life, this nebula had been a cigar-shaped patch, leaving me wondering about its monicker. When I looked at it through the UHC, I saw for the first time its delicate curves and lovely swan shape - and now it's one of my favorites!
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Acheron
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#1 M13
#2 M42
#3 Double Cluster
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typhus
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I'm a big fan of M27, The dumbbell. I also like M 81 & M 82.
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Cosmosphil
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I would have to move more in the direction of FirstSight.
But, even more so. If you have a 10 or 12" and a good dark sky any of the Abell galaxy clusters are on the top of my list. Dozens of galaxies in the same field. Each little fuzzy spot a star city of billions of suns and trillions of planets. The cluster so far away and the light so old that dinosaurs didn't even exist yet! The mind races........and races......................
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I love the Veil Nebula in an O-III filter; the darker the
skies and the bigger the scope, the better.
The Cats Eye nebula is incredible in the Collins I3 image
intensifying eyepiece, as is M16 where the Pillars of
Creation look very similar to the famous Hubble photo.
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Mr. Bill
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Whatever I'm looking at at the moment...
Seriously, I like the M24 starcloud and Pipe Nebula regions viewed with my 6 inch Fuji binoculars. The complexity is astounding with the mixture of starclouds and dark nebulae. Like having a Schmidt camera screwed into each eyeball!
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ForgottenMObject
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The Double Cluster, the Orion Nebula, M22, M13, and M5... and M3... and M92... and... okay, you get the idea!
How about this:
Open Cluster: M45, Double Cluster, or M44. M6 and M7 for those with clear southern skies.
Nebula: M42 is the northern winner, but M17 and M8 are nice, and the deep south has lots of great objects. M57 is pretty nice, too.
Globular cluster: M22, M13, and M5 are all close for me, with M3 and M92 close behind. Deep southern treats are even better than these, of course.
Galaxy: Can't see too many from the land of light pollution... how about M31?
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galaxyman
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Ngc-4565 in my 22" Dob. A real stunner!
Karl
22" f/4.5 Dob
12.5" F/4.8 Dob
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Alvin Huey
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-Omega Centauri in the 30" at TSP
-Veil in the 30" and O-III filter
-Lumpy Darkness (faint galaxy clusters) in my 22" and 30"...where I can see many very to extremely faint galaxies in a moderatly high power field.
-Completing TSP Advanced Observing Program (Arp Galaxies) with my friend's 4" TV102. And her scope didn't have a finder scope, so I had to eyeball it. Fun stuff. 
-Many others...too many to list.
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Clear Skies,
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stevecoe
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Boy, this is a toughie;
By category:
Globulars: 47 Tuc and M 5
Galaxies: M 33 and LMC
Nebulae: M 17, 42 and Eta Carina
Open clusters: M 6, Dbl Cl and NGC 3532
Dark Neb: The Dark Emu and B 86
Planetaries: Ring and Dumbell
But, wait, I left out soooo many: M 11 and M 37 and Omega Centauri and M 8 and the Pipe and the Milky Way and and and......
It is nice to have choices;
Steve Coe
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novbabies
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Ngc-4565 in my 22" Dob. A real stunner!
Karl
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Yer KILLIN' us, Karl ! ! ! 
Seriously, it must be AWESOME in 22" of aperture, 'cause its pretty darn fine in a 12"!
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Good Seeing!
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Darren
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For northern hemisphere observers, I think M42 tops 'em all by a country mile. There's about another dozen in a horse-race for second place, including M8, M31, M22, and the Double Cluster.
But it all depends on your perspective, doesn't it? Naked-eye, it's probably the Milky Way. In bino's, perhaps M45. In a big yard cannon, maybe the Veil.
But for Heep and myself, it's unquestionably the Luminous Rose in Orion.
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Jeff Young
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M42 and M51 would be at the top of my list, but I'd say M13 is the most emotional. There are some nights when it just makes me want to cry....
(I used to always view it framed in about 1/2°, but I've found that it also looks really great at about 350x in a 1/4° field -- real wall-to-wall stars, especially in an ultra-wide.)
-- Jeff.
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galaxyman
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Ngc-4565 in my 22" Dob. A real stunner!
Karl
22" f/4.5 Dob
12.5" F/4.8 Dob
8" f/9 refractor(very soon-this weekend!)
4.7" F/5 Refractor
Yer KILLIN' us, Karl ! ! !
Seriously, it must be AWESOME in 22" of aperture, 'cause its pretty darn fine in a 12"!
Yes, it is very good sight in a 12" or 12.5". Just this past weekend at Cherry Springs I had one heck of a view with my 12.5" f/4.8 Dob with a 11mm Nagler (138x).
In fact it looked great in my 4.7" f/5 refractor with a 10mm Radian (60x).
Now in the 22" with my 7mm Type 6 Nagler (358x) I can see detail in the dark lane itself.
So many galaxies, so little time or clear "moonless" nights.
Karl
22" f/4.5 Dob
12.5" F/4.8 Dob
8" f/9 refractor(very soon-this weekend)
4.7" F/5 Refractor
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So many galaxies, so little time!
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Alvin Huey
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NGC 4565 - Saw incredible detail on the galaxy and dust lane with my friend's 18" f/4.5 NightSky at TSP.
Undescribable in the 30", loads of structure within the dust lane and the parts above and below it. At high powers, nice stellar nucleus.
IC 3571 located about 6' due north of the nucleus was a very faint, very small, low surface brightness disk of about 20" across. NED lists it at mag 17.79
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Clear Skies,
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