Best Telescope Targets
All of the binocular targets listed above also make great telescope quarry, but December skies offer great opportunities to see objects that require a telescope too. First, slew your scope just a few degrees southwest of M31 to find M33, a distant face-on spiral galaxy that’s about 2.5 million light years (MLY) away from Earth. In the constellation Sculptor far to the south, try to find NGC 253, the impressive “silver dollar” galaxy. There’s a swarm of other galaxies to see in the general area of NGC 253 — all part of the “Sculptor Group” of galaxies.
