Right now Hercules is high in the sky when I finally get outside (10pm or later), but I don't mind waiting since it's pretty hot until then when some cool breezes start lending me their help. Near the keystone of Hercules we looked at M13 - the Hercules Globular Cluster commonly called "Best Globular in the Northern Skies"... it doesn't suck too much at all. This is where the 250mm beats down on the 70mm since I couldn't really get much closer than the 20mm in the refractor, but w/ the big dob I went all the way to 15mm w/ 3x Barlow (240x magnification) which showed me individual stars :)
Lyra - saw the double double (one is stacked up and one is side to side).
Ring Nebula - while looking at Lyra I noticed this DSO and it's the one you see in the picture books... Here are two pictures of it (one that's almost like it looked for me and one that's a hubble level badass).
Here's the badass...
It's so amazing to actually see a smoke ring floating through space with my own eyes and absolutely no artificial shenanigans at all (electronics, etc.).
Now on to Aquila (the eagle) - At it's tail is M11, the Wild Duck Cluster... named for it's V shape through binoculars. Lots of stars that are easy to differentiate, but the shape is definitely asymmetrical.
Scorpius - Saw the three stars that make up his claws and identified it - that's pretty much it.
