M1 through 12" dob

[Robstargazer15]

The 1st Messier object looked different at high power. I saw things in the object ivenever seen before, the greyish oval turned into a irregular form i cant describe, and the smallest hint of filaments that adore M1. Tge brighter filaments showed up in the southwestern bottom edge of M1's irregular shape.

What a nice view of a seldom observed messier object.

[Double Kick Drum]

Nice description. A good sky and 12 inch aperture paying dividends.

Just a feint fuzzy rectangle to me.

Thanks for sharing.

[estwing]

when i see it sometimes i kid myself there's more detail there than there actually is...

[m_j_lyons]

Earlier in the month I observed M1 and could just discern an uneven-ness in the nebulae...but couldn't go so far as to say filament structure. Great job. That 12" in a really dark spot would be a treasure. Is it very portable?

Happy hunting.

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[mert]

What power were you using?

[Moonshane]

I saw the brighter filaments inside M1 at Buxton PSP in 2011. I was using my 16" dob with my 13mm Ethos (140x) and a UHC or Oiii (cannot recall which).

[cheb]

I used my GOTO reluctantley after trying to find M1 a few nights over the last few months. ETX90 with a 19mm wide field skywatcher EP and a x2 barlow !!!! It was a small hazy blob of hazy light, and i was well chuffed!! I spend ages looking at M42 and Orion in general and decided before christmas i would like to have a go at seeing all the messiers preferabley without the goto, after viewing quite a few it was nice to finally find M1!! Im going to upgrade to a 12" later in the year so im enjoying getting the most out of this scope!

Nice desciption of what i will upgrade to!

[earth titan]

Ahhh. M1 eh! Unless the sky is dark and you have a lot of aperture, it never amounts to too much.

But a dark sky and 12-16".... :-)

Typed by me on my fone, using fumms... Excuse eny speling errurs.

[Mike73]

Dark skies and excellent transparency is they key to picking out detail in faint objects like M1.

I viewed M1 just before Christmas in good VLM 6.4 skies but the transparency was really poor, to the eye it looked clear as a bell but through the EP I'd catch glimpses of detail every 15 seconds or so which was just enough to make a sketch, I guess it was very similar to when your observing planets and you have to wait for moments of good seeing.

http://darkskysketches.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=m1

But as estwing says its so easy to imagine detail when looking at the really faint stuff.

[nephilim]

Dark skies and excellent transparency is they key to picking out detail in faint objects like M1.

I viewed M1 just before Christmas in good VLM 6.4 skies but the transparency was really poor, to the eye it looked clear as a bell but through the EP I'd catch glimpses of detail every 15 seconds or so which was just enough to make a sketch, I guess it was very similar to when your observing planets and you have to wait for moments of good seeing.

http://darkskysketch....uk/search?q=m1

But as estwing says its so easy to imagine detail when looking at the really faint stuff.

Nice sketch Mike, my drawing abilities amount to broken stick men

Steve

[estwing]

it's those dammed photo's!!..how many times have you seen the piccy,then seen it for yourself and gone...oh.

[m_j_lyons]

Dark skies and excellent transparency is they key to picking out detail in faint objects like M1.

I viewed M1 just before Christmas in good VLM 6.4 skies but the transparency was really poor, to the eye it looked clear as a bell but through the EP I'd catch glimpses of detail every 15 seconds or so which was just enough to make a sketch, I guess it was very similar to when your observing planets and you have to wait for moments of good seeing.

http://darkskysketch....uk/search?q=m1

But as estwing says its so easy to imagine detail when looking at the really faint stuff.

Yes, very nicely done!

[bish]

M1 is such a tricky DSO. I've looked at it with an 11" from a dark site and still couldn't make out much more than a haze. As Mike has said, I think transparency needs to be excellent for this one (as well as a dark sky).

[KevUU]

it's those dammed photo's!!..how many times have you seen the piccy,then seen it for yourself and gone...oh.

Hah! This is why, perhaps bizzarrely, I look at less astro pics now I have a scope

I do keep up with APOD, but not the stuff I'm likely to be looking at. Trying to manage my own expectations

[bish]

Hah! This is why, perhaps bizzarrely, I look at less astro pics now I have a scope

I do keep up with APOD, but not the stuff I'm likely to be looking at. Trying to manage my own expectations

That's partly why I like the Night Sky Observers Guides. There are alot of sketches. When you see a sketch made through a 12" scope of a DSO and it still isn't much more than a smudge you know what to expect.