In the quiet of the night I found myself sitting on the patio and walking around the yard for about 30 to 40 minutes with my faithful companion
Anyway, I did a little tour around the sky and here is what I was able to pick up with the 10x50s from our typical suburban-type backyard. I took no charts and simply pursued by my memory of where some objects were. This outing was nothing amazing, rather just simple relaxation in the coolness of the post midnight air before calling it a night.
Sitting on the patio I looked straight up to the zenith and easily spotted the trademark ‘”keystone”
Next I swept down into Scorpius and easily spotted naked eye Antares through the binoculars. Just a little over 1° to its west I quickly spotted the somewhat large round and very diffuse glow. Its low surface brightness rendered it a little dim in my light polluted sky, but it was still easy. Similarly to M13, it seemed to have a stellar core, though of course with more
Now moving to just over halfway between Antares and Beta Scorpii (Graffias), I studied the field for a few moments after steadying the binoculars. Eventually as my eye relaxed and adjusted to the field, I discerned the very small and clearly non-stellar diffuse disk of this globular. Fairly dim to my eyes, it was not difficult once I discerned it within the large field of view.
Swinging down to the tail of Scorpius I quickly found this summer staple. Quite large in the binoculars, it was a beautiful rich scatter of stars, with a large looping string off the northern edge. This one, along with M6, holds a special place for me as I spent many a summer evening as a young boy looking at them through my little Gilbert 3 inch Newtonian.
Within the same
I now swept up into in Ophiuchus and slid into its middle portion. It did not take me long to pull down this globular just west of the star 30 Ophiuchi. Small and slightly dim visually, it was round and like M13 and M4, its center presented as a tiny stellar core due to the inability to resolve the individual stars.
About 3° to the northwest of M10 and in the same
Coat hanger
Known formally as Collinder 399 or Brocchi’s Cluster, it is affectionately called the “coat hanger” due to its very distinctive shape. It presented a bright and easy grouping of a dozen stars in the upside-down coat hanger appearance that never fails to invoke a sense of curiosity because of its unique pattern.
Picking up Sagitta with the naked eye, I quickly found the field for this very diffuse and loosely structured globular. I braced the binoculars a little to steady the view and studied the field for a few minutes. As with M4, my eyes eventually relaxed and adjusted to the field in view, and I could then detect the soft glowing disk of this cluster. Small and slightly dim to the eye because of its low surface brightness, it was a very diffuse object. In larger scopes and from darker locations this cluster is a true stunner, though it can often be overlooked within the rich Milky Way field in which it resides.
Diamond Ring
Dominated by Polaris, this
So with the diamond ring, I called my brief foraging expedition done. I bid Stubby a good night (wherever he was at that time) and went back in to get some sleep. It was a fun little endeavor, and something I haven’t done in quite some time. As an aside while I was looking at Scorpius with the naked eye, I noticed several stars to its SSW that were part of the constellation Lupus the wolf. Since a neighbor's tree went down some time ago, some of the stars lower to our south have now become visible!
Thanks for coming along and I hope you get the opportunity get out there yourself sooner rather than later.
Going from dark skies at 17.5 inches to brighter skies at 10x50 is certainly a paradigm shift. But, it is good to mix it up once in a while. If you make adjustments in equipment and localized conditions, it can be just as challenging to observe otherwise bright objects as it is a 14th to 15th magnitude galaxy. 
