added benefit to looking at brighter objects when you're first starting out &mdash; they're easier to find.<br><br><span class="popup-sectionhead">Read about observing</span><br>Many observing guidebooks exist to help you tour the sky's best celestial objects. In addition, each month, <i>Astronomy</i> magazine presents a section entitled "The sky this month." Individual features about that month's astronomy highlights (such as eclipses), the planets, deep-sky observing, meteor showers, comets, and asteroids