North America Nebula

[John]

All these comments have cheered me up. Its not necessarily my lack of observational ability! I've tried to see this nebula with two different scopes and 11x80 tripod mounted bins. Now the Council turn the street-lights out after midnight its pretty dark from my backyard, but still no joy. I had all but given up, but now I shall keep on trying. Thanks to all.

Definitely worth keeping on trying. My story with this object is the same as many others in this thread. It took me years to see it and then it was with 15x70 binoculars on a loverly dark night. Since then I've seen parts of it (the "gulf of Mexico" region) with my 102mm F/6.5 scope at very low magnification and with an O-III filter.

[JacobvonChorus]

With my 80mm apo at F/6.3, I was just able to make out parts of this nebula a 32mm eyepiece. I was in an ink black site at the time.

Jacob

[Mr Flibble]

Saw this for the first time last weekend from my local dark sky sight. Used my UHC filter and wide field EP which gives me about 1.6 degrees TFoV. Could tell it was definitely the NA neb because I could make out the gulf of mexico area quite clearly. Really chuffed to have finally seen it after looking plenty of times before and failing. Must admit the skies very pretty dark where I was though.

[kirkster501]

What is "The Wall" on the NA nebula? Heard this term several times and not sure what it means......