• The Moon - look at craters along the terminator where the sunlight ends. On the moon thats where the light is horizontal so the shadows of the craters are biggest.
  • Jupiter - can you see its moons ?
  • Saturn - can you see its rings and moons ?
  • The Pleiades. Easily seen with the naked eye, and is even better with binoculars.
  • h and chi Persei: A pair of open clusters visible to the naked eye (though not as easily as the Pleiades).
  • The Andromeda galaxy. Can JUST be seen with the naked eye if you are in a very dark site away from street lamps. This is the furthest thing an unaided eye can see - the light from it has taken 2 million years to reach you. Its easily visible in binoculars.
  • Orion nebula. A cloud of gas and dust which is forming stars. The remaining gas and dust glow as they are lit up by the light of the young stars within it.
  • Milky way: resolve it into lots of faint stars.
  • Albireo: a fairly bright star in Cygnus. You should be able to resolve this with the binoculars, and see that the two stars are different colours, i.e. they are different tempertures.