Hi You guys,
You can get a look at whats going on in the sky for your part of the world on this site:
http://www.heavens-above.com
there's loads of interesting info there more to do with satellites and stuff, but you can get star maps too.
Mars is getting brighter and rising a little earlier each night at the moment, Helen you may be able to see some detail at 60x during the atmosphere's steadier moments, and there's loads of intersting stuff to see that a spoting scope of that aperture will easily pick up, such as the galaxy M31 in the constellation of Andromeda, and it's two small companion galaxies, M32 and M110. It fills the field of view in my 20x80 binoculars. There's also the 'double cluster' open star cluster pair on the borders of Cassiopea and Perseus, and the Pleiades in Taurus which again fill the field of view at 20x.
All these objects are in the eastern sky late evening, if you want any maps, drop me a PM and I'll be happy to send them over.
I've not found anywhere to post this stuff here as yet.
Saturn is still a late riser but getting earlier. The Moon is now waxing and approaching first quarter. plenty to see in a 80mm spotter scope on the moon, the best detail is to be had on the 'terminator' line, at the edge of the shadow.
I'll be posting some CCD images soon as I'm awaiting arrival of my tracking mount for my 14-inch reflector, then I'll be able to post some varied deep space images (fingers crossed)