Attempted to see The Lagoona Nebula, got The Dumbbell Nebula instead
I suppose I should have read the text before going out, in Turn Left at Orion it says to find the "Teapot", but having no clue where this was (even from the diagram) I was lost from the start!
I looked downwards from Altair but couldn't see anything like in the diagrams so decided to switch targets to The Dumbbell Nebula.
This I managed with relative ease, I didn't have my iPad or SkyScout with me and there were no co-ordinates so I relied entirely on visual star hopping, I found the arrow of Sagitta and from there it was just a short hop and search to find a fuzzy patch - The Dumbbell Nebula! It didn't look exactly like in the book, more square with rounded corners than dumbbell shaped, but I assumed this had to be it. I'm sure with my 8SE I'll see more of it.
Very pleased to have found it manually at least.
When I got back indoors I checked for M8 (Lagoona Nebula) on StarWalk on the iPad and found it would have been very close to the horizon, probably well below my field of view, and probably not visible anyway due to light pollution in that direction (busy main road near the horizon with industrial units that never turn their lights off).
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