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What to shoot in October
46 targets 279 sky-check 0 pinned 27 wishlist

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96 Messier, 119 NGC, 7 IC, and 11 Barnard objects, plus archive targets.

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Tonight's picks

Ranked for Sewell, NJ using season, altitude, and moon phase (65% lit). Grayscale tiles are public reference images, not Lost Photons captures.

NGC 7662 Not in archive
NGC 7662 Blue Snowball

Daylight now · peak 87 deg

Moon tolerant
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M76 Not in archive
M76 Little Dumbbell Nebula

Daylight now · peak 78 deg

Moon tolerant
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NGC 650 Not in archive
NGC 650 Little Dumbbell Nebula

Daylight now · peak 78 deg

Moon tolerant
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Summer Triangle Annotated
Summer Triangle Summer Triangle Annotated

Daylight now · peak 89 deg

Moonless
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Summer Triangle Widefield
Summer Triangle Summer Triangle Widefield

Daylight now · peak 89 deg

Moonless
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M32 Not in archive
M32 M32

Daylight now · peak 89 deg

Moonless
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NGC 221 Not in archive
NGC 221 M32

Daylight now · peak 89 deg

Moonless
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Andromeda Galaxy
M31 Andromeda Galaxy

Daylight now · peak 88 deg

Moonless
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