Observations of objects of type "Bright Nebula"

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Observations of objects of type "Bright Nebula":

M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: poor
Time: Sun Jul 3 22:35:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1253

This nebula appeared great along with the nearby galactic cluster, M18. The fainter part of the nebula was visible with averted vision.

NGC6960 (Bright Nebula, in Cygnus)
Observer: Andrew Cooper (e-mail: acooper@pobox.com, web: http://www.siowl.com/)
Instrument: 46-cm Dobsonian reflector   Location: Vekol Road, Arizona, Unites States
Light pollution: none   Transparency: good   Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jun 5 04:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1274

The fragment surrounding 52Cyg , appears as a wisp of smoke, starting narrow to the north and widening as it goes through the star, a lot of detail within the wisp, almost appearing braided, OIII allows much more contrast and detail to be seen

NGC6231 (Bright Nebula, in Scorpius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 6-inch other   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: fair   Seeing: good
Time: Mon May 30 23:25:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1241

This is really an excellent sight through any instrument of any size. It looked some what beautiful with zeta sco and a faint circlet of stars at the centre of the cluster.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.astroclubul.org/emilneata)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor   Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1172

M 8 - Diffuse light surrounding a grouping of stars. Easily seen with averted vision.

M17 (Omega Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.astroclubul.org/emilneata)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor   Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1170

M 17 - Very bright nebula, elongated shape. The northern part is almost straight, in the south I can see a small prominence.

M42 (Orion Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.astroclubul.org/emilneata)
Instrument: 60-mm refractor   Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1168

I can easily see M 42 with my telescope, in the northern part of the nebula I've seen a dark intrusion, using averted vision. The “wings” of the nebula are not visible, even on a dark sky. The “Trapezium” cluster is easily seen, composed of three stars.

M42 (Orion Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Mon Nov 29 03:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1119

The view of M42 tonight completely blew me away! At 30x the boundaries of the nebula were crisp. The stars looked like headlights of a car peering through fog. It was eerie to see how thick the nebula really was. The Trapezium was easy to seperate at 30x. The coloring was indeed a pale green (previous sighting last month appeared grayish). Boosting to 203x the nebula filled up a large portion of the FOV. Even at this magnification, the contrast of the nebula was unspoiled. A wonderful spectacle that I just can not ever get enough of!

M42 (Orion Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/deep_sky_astronomy)
Instrument: 114-mm Dobsonian reflector   Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 10 03:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1112

With my 114mm telescope, on a dark country sky, M 42 barley fits in my eyepiece field at 36x, and the details are incredible. The nebula is divided into three areas, according to brightness: The brightest part surrounds the four young stars formed inside the nebula, then continues in the nebulas wings. The medium brightness part is located SE of the Trapezium cluster, and finishes in the point where the eastern wing begins.The faintest area is located in the southern part of the nebula, and continues in the wings. The eastern "wing" is the brightest and longest, and the western one is shorter but wider.In the northern part of the nebula, just above the "Trapezium", you will see a dark intrusion that gives the characteristic aspect of the nebula.

NGC6383 (Bright Nebula, in Scorpius)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/deep_sky_astronomy)
Instrument: 114-mm Dobsonian reflector   Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 10 03:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1108

NGC 6383 is composed of 15 bright stars, of which a very bright one in the est.

M78 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/deep_sky_astronomy)
Instrument: 114-mm Dobsonian reflector   Location: Craiova, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 10 03:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1092

M 78 is faint and elongated, it surrounds two 10th mag. stars.

NGC1977 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Emil Neata (e-mail: forvert2000@yahoo.com, web: http://www.geocities.com/deep_sky_astronomy)
Instrument: 114-mm Dobsonian reflector   Location: Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Wed Nov 10 02:00:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1091

NGC 1977 surrounds five stars arranged in an U pattern, and is elongated towards the south. It's split into three areas, according to brightness. The brightest part surrounds the star 42 Orionis. The medium bright part is located to the W. The faintest part is visible with averted vision towards the south.

Sorry for the mistake in the last post folks. I meant to state that the "Trapezium" was easily noticeable. Not the "Triangulum". (Seems like I have M33 on my mind just alittle too much.

Cloudcover dominated the late afternoon into the night. By midnight they had broken up sufficiently. At 1:30 AM I had decided to pull out the scope. M42 was awesome! At low power (30x) the Triangulum was easily visible. All 4 stars were easy to "pick apart" due to the stillness of the night. The nebula's boundaries had alot of contrast, however it did not appear to be pale green but rather light gray (probably because it was still very low on the horizon). At 203x the view was massive! No noticeable detail was lost at this power, and M43 was also easily discernable as well as the fishmouth. Spurred on by this magnificent view, I shot up to Alnitak to try and get a glimpse of the Horsehead Nebula and the "Flame". Unfortunately I could not find even a trace of them.

M1 (Crab Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Taurus)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 6-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Horsham, Pa., USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Oct 16 06:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1077

After some showers in the late Friday afternoon, clouds loomed throughout the majority of the night. At about midnight they started breaking up significantly so that by 1:30 in the morning, all was clear. Orion had already risen in the south and was slightly above the treelines. Taurus was further above so I deicided on M1 as my primary target. Spotting it was easy as it was in close proximaty (about 1 degree NW) of Zeta in the bull. It appeared as a faint s-shaped smudge when observed. However, the longer I watched it, the more prominent the shape was recognizable. Also viewd M31, M35, M42 and M43 as well as M45.

NGC3372 (Bright Nebula, in Carina)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm refractor   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: good
Time: Tue Oct 5 04:50:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1213

i saw the stars in this enoromous star forming region more clearly than the nebula itself.as it is 2 degrees across in the sky,its highly diffused and is difficult to be observed.as the horizon has a dense,dusty atmosphere, i could not see the eta carinae nebula clearly.a number of sodium vapour lamps near the southern horizon also add for the invisibility of the emission nebula.the fifth magnitude star which i saw embedded in the heart of the nebula with great difficulty through my telescope is now one of my favourite stars.i like bright giant and supergiant stars,especially blue-white ones.among them is this eta car because its a "hypergiant",something more than a supergiant.its a 100 times more massive than our sun.this star lies just a few degrees above our southern horizon.

M42 (Orion Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 17-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Colebrook, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: good
Time: Thu Sep 23 07:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1062

Last week, my friends, Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I went to the northwest hills of Connecticut to observe in the dark skies after the moon set. The most stunning observation we made was of the Orion Nebula with Mike's 17" dob. We were able to easily see green, blue and red colors of M42. The coloring was quite obvious. M43 was also sharp and clear. The shape of M42 and M43 looked like a photo. Another great observation was M31, M32, and M110. The dust lane cutting through the Andromeda Galaxy was clear and sharply defined. I found M110 to be very interesting. Although it is not listed as a spiral galaxy, it looked like one in the 17" dob. The more I looked at it the more spiral it looked to me. M33, the Triangulum Galaxy was also spectacular. We were able to see the spiral arms of the face on galaxy rather nicely. With M57, the Ring Nebula, we were able to see structure in different parts of the ring. We also saw great detail on M27 the Dumbbel Nebula. The taurid meteor shower was occuring. We saw between 15 and 20 meteors. One of them was a fireball brighter than Venus which broke up over our heads. Another one left a beautiful meteor train. At 2:30 AM EDT the Zodiacal Light came into view. IT was fairly bright before it faded away at 3:00 AM EDT. The nebulasity around the M45, the Pleiades, was stunning, especilly around its bright stars.We also observed many other objects. On our second evening, we stepped out of our cabin at 4:00 AM EDT to do some naked eye observing. The milky way's great rift jumped out at us. Even the Orion end of the milky way was very visable. For the first time, I was able to observe the whole constellation of Eridanus. It looked like a great river in the sky as it went away from Orion and then curled back towards Orion. All in all, two perfect nights.

M20 (Trifid Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm refractor   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: good   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Aug 15 23:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1210

the three dust lanes of this nebula are really impossilble to be seen through any instrument smaller than 6 inch(150 mm)telescope.but i have the satisfaction that i could atleast see the nebula through my scope.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm refractor   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: good   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Aug 15 23:30:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1209

this was the second nebula i saw after M42(orion nebula) of orion.but this appeared a bit whitish when compared to the great nebula which appeared greenish (small telescopes cant show the real colors of nebulae).i tried to find the trifid nebula(M 20)which is only 1.5 degrees northwest of lagoon nebula.but i remember that i could see it only with averted vision.

NGC7000 (Bright Nebula, in Cygnus)
Observer: Giorgos Koronis (e-mail: giorgos.koronis@lies.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Parnon mountain, Greece
Light pollution: none   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: good
Time: Sun Jun 20 00:55:00 2004 UT   Obs. no.: 1024

The famous north America nebula is faint.Under the fine dark skies of Parnon mountain I could easily follow the "mexican coast" up to the "gulf of mexico" with direct vision.No filter used.28 x(32mm erfle).

M1 (Crab Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Taurus, Est. RaDec --)
Observer: Balasubramanian ramkumar (e-mail: mrclearsky@rediffmail.com)
Instrument: 13.8-cm equatorial reflector   Location: chennai, TN, india
Light pollution: severe   Transparency: fair   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Dec 18 17:25:00 2003 UT   Obs. no.: 923

I searched for more than an hour, it in the end it was under my very eye. So dull and dim it was that i couldn't recognise it in my first attempt. I got it in 5 or 6 trials. But, nothing in this region can defeat its beauty, glory and awe.

M8 (Lagoon Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Sagittarius)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: binoculars   Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Mon Jul 7 03:30:00 2003 UT   Obs. no.: 830

Last night, I took out my 10X50 binoculars to observe M8 Before the clouds rolled in. In binoculars, M8 looks like an elongated group of stars in which nebulosity shows very well on the left hand side. I then observed the M21 open cluster of stars Which lies next to M20. The M24 star cloud shows a nice sprinkling of stars in the binos. Finally, I looked at M4. Oddly, M4 looks more like a globular cluster in binoculars than it does in any telescope I've ever looked through.

M42 (Orion Nebula) (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in)
Instrument: 50-mm equatorial reflector   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: excellent
Time: Wed Jan 15 20:35:00 2003 UT   Obs. no.: 1196

During the clear winter nights,when i pointed my telescope towards a cloudy star in the minor belt of orion which lies perpendicular to the middle belt star,Alnilam,appeared as a burning gas with 4 stars within it.i was sure that it was the great nebula though i was still a beginner then.

NGC2261 (Bright Nebula, in Monoceros)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Dec 10 07:55:00 2002 UT   Obs. no.: 752

Hubble's Variable Nebula was easy at all powers, as a smallish, comet-shaped fuzzy patch.

NGC2023 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Dec 10 07:30:00 2002 UT   Obs. no.: 750

Dark lane detected at low power by jiggling telescope. Fairly difficult.

NGC2024 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: excellent   Seeing: fair
Time: Tue Dec 10 07:25:00 2002 UT   Obs. no.: 749

Detected at low power. Fairly difficult.

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