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Observations of object "M43":

M43 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jjharp@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Apr 14 15:00:00 2018 UT   Obs. no.: 2047

Star Party with the astronomy club. Bortle class 3 but it was still a very enjoyable evening. All objects clear and quick to find. Completing Messier certificate. M13, M41 which we also saw in binoculars, M43 located between the city light dome and the zodiacal light, the nebula cloud was hard to see, but we could see enough of it to know we found it; M92

M43 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Joe Muse (e-mail: jjharp@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector   Location: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat Apr 14 15:00:00 2018 UT   Obs. no.: 2046

Star Party with the astronomy club. Bortle class 3 but it was still a very enjoyable evening. All objects clear and quick to find. Completing Messier certificate. M13, M41 which we also saw in binoculars, M43 located between the city light dome and the zodiacal light, the nebula cloud was hard to see, but we could see enough of it to know we found it; M92

M43 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Akarsh Simha (e-mail: akarsh_simha@fastmail.fm)
Instrument: 8-inch equatorial reflector   Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: good
Time: Fri Sep 16 22:45:00 2005 UT   Obs. no.: 1325

The star near the great orion nebula's trapezium clearly shows nebulosity. This is M43. The nebulosity was faint, hardly visible. I could not see any detail.

M43 (Bright Nebula, in Orion)
Observer: Serge (e-mail: astroguy@onaustralia.com.au)
Instrument: 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector   Location: Perth, WA, Australia
Light pollution: light   Transparency: good   Seeing: fair
Time: Thu Dec 21 17:10:00 2000 UT   Obs. no.: 540

Nebulosity surrounding 5 stars, 2 stars are somehow brighter than others

M43 (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: good   Seeing: poor
Time: Sat Mar 1 04:45:00 1997 UT   Obs. no.: 81

An easy glow in the 8-inch while observing M42.

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