Question Astronomy

So, I just managed to finish building my very first telescope -- grinding the mirror, building the mount, aligning the mirrors -- and now I'm ready for a viewing project. Some people make a goal of viewing all the Messier objects (100+ nebula and galaxies found by Charles Messier in the 18th century), some track double stars (stars that look like a single point of light by eye but resolve to two or more in a telescope). Others track comets or other astronomical phenomena. I want to do something different: I want to track down stars and what-not that have meaning in the Whateley universe.

So, what stellar objects are out there? Star systems that the Starstalker turned into nebular gas? Worlds visited by the Sidhe before the sundering?

Or maybe I should be asking what are objects that I should avoid seeking out, like GOOs floating at the edge of the solar system or rips in the space-time continuum? I don't quite want to go insane (or any more insane than I am now).

If your testing it out, I would suggest a few moon shots followed by M31. This I'm sure will give you some outstanding viewpoints to verify the image quality. Is it also avial for auto tracking or photography?

Given that there is an asteroid due to fly by soon, if you can get the quards and view that would be pretty exciting also. That is of course if there is enough illum to view the object else its just radio waves.

Edit: Of course that is all dependent on which side of the equator your viewing that you can do.

It's 6" f/7.5 (ish) reflector. No photography (yet) and I still have to collimate though I managed to get a great view of Jupiter and three of its moons Tuesday morning. And the only tracking that the scope has is whatever I can manage moving it by hand and sighting along the tube.

Which still makes it far more powerful than anything Galileo or Newton had.

Any chance on the rings of Saturn? Also are you equipping it for future to where you're able to view sunspots? Obviously long term tracking will be out unless you have a very steady hand. Of course there is also Venus and Mars.

Jupiter is always good in a small telescope.
Saturn is coming into conjunction soon, so wont be easy for some months. Mars is too small atm for a good view
The Moon is always good in a small telescope.
Deep sky, try M42 in Orion, M81 in Ursa Major, or some of the bright Messier clusters. Most of the brighter galaxies are Spring objects, but NGC7331 in Pegasus is worth a look. Also M27 in Vulpecula if you are observing in the next month or so, and M57. These are high surface brightness objects for a small telescope.
Be careful with the Sun, your telescope is perfectly capable of burning a hole in lead at its focus - and even the unfocussed image, can melt bits of your tube.