The Observer's Handbook is a phenomenal resource for any astronomer. It tells you everything that's going to be happening in the sky that year! But it can be intimidating. There are lots of charts and diagrams that can scare off new astronomers upon first glance. 

Catalogue Notes

2019-05-03 update (pm)

Though we had some passing high clouds last night / this morning, one of our telescope operators did a run on the nice spiral galaxy M101.  Even with non-optimal conditions we were still able to pull out some good imagery using the luminance filter with no special processing. The image shows the full frame of the camera/telescope system.