What to photograph in June

M10 is a bright, fairly large globular cluster in Ophiuchus.

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules is the showpiece globular of the northern sky: a dense ball of several hundred thousand stars packed into about twenty arcminutes.

M12 is a globular cluster in Ophiuchus with a looser, less concentrated core than most, so the individual stars spread out and are easier to resolve.

M92 is a fine globular cluster in Hercules that is often overshadowed by its famous neighbor, M13.

The Wild Duck Cluster is one of the richest and densest open clusters in the sky, a wedge of thousands of stars in Scutum.

The Eagle Nebula is where the famous Pillars of Creation live: columns of gas and dust where new stars are forming.

M26 is a small, faint open cluster in Scutum with an unusual gap of dim stars in its middle, thought to be a region where dust blocks the light.

M14 is a fairly large but faint globular cluster in Ophiuchus.

M107 is a fairly loose, faint globular cluster in Ophiuchus.

M56 is a small, faint globular cluster in Lyra, sitting in a rich star field midway between Albireo and Gamma Lyrae.

The Ring Nebula in Lyra is a small, neat smoke ring of gas around a dying star.

The Cat's Eye Nebula in Draco is a small, bright planetary nebula with an intricate structure of nested shells and jets, plus a much fainter halo around it.