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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.