Hello,
I'm a student and I had a passion in astronomy for a long time. Some friends of mine also love astronomy and we decided to start an astronomy club in my high school. We have a 4" f5,6 archo refractor, 4.5" f8 reflector, 5" f5 reflector (astromaster 130eq) , a 70mm or 80mm long reflector and some binoculars.
We want to have a small star party at the local stadium near my house and the magnitude of the sky is around 19.77, which is around bortle 5 to 6. The party will be held around 28th of July to 2nd of August depend on the weather.
We want to show our club member the beauty of the sky and now we are planning what we should do and what we will see for the member who had never used a telescope.
As can be seen on Stellarium, we only have moon (great target) and mars as a planet (venus and saturn will rise around 4a.m in the morning but I don't know will their family allow them to stay at my house full night, especially staying outside).
I had read some topics and articles about stargazing and they all said that we should observe double stars, open and globular clusters, while galaxies and nebulars are too dim and hard for people to observe (I think I will try andromeda but I have no idea about it)
We live in Hanoi, Vietnam (latitude: 20° 56' 33.62" - longitude:105° 45' 15.08")
I start this topic to ask everyone who have any idea or tips or should we do some activities like sketching in our star party and what targets we should view, please leave a comment and we all appriciate it!
(i just start learning english for a year and half so if any think wrong or hard to understand or some synonyms i should use, please tell me so i can check and learn from it 
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Some of the images I took where we will go
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Edited by Minh.V, 23 June 2025 - 01:56 AM.
