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Your Telescope
Use the zoom button or mouse-wheel for spectacular close-up views of the Twenty Great Fuzzies. Zooming is like looking through a more and more powerful telescope.Brilliant treasures lie buried within the constellations. Collected here for your delight: twenty "objects"; favorites of many amateur astronomers. Among these twenty "fuzzy" targets are star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. They make a rewarding starting point for the exploration of the deep sky.
Of course, comets are fuzzies too. Fuzzy, but fickle. Sometimes their orbits (and therefore their return dates) are known. Sometimes not. And you never know in advance just how good—or how disappointing—the cometary show will be. So here, we've chosen to profile only those objects that will always be there for you.
Most are visible to the naked eye or with binoculars under a clear, moonless night. This list is just a hint of what's out there. Celestial riches abound, hidden out there among—and beyond—the stars.