Deep sky challenge: Stars, clusters and nebulae of summer

Glittering stellar groupings, a star’s corpse and a beautiful double star can be seen through any size of telescope

Many think the summer sky is too bright to allow observation of ‘faint’ and ‘fuzzy’ deep-sky objects, but if you stay up late the sky is just dark enough to let you see some lovely sights. Around one and two in the morning – providing the sky isn’t lit up with a display of bright blue and silver noctilucent clouds – a telescope will give you very pleasing views of some of astronomy’s most famous objects.