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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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