That's M42. That is probably the easiest deep sky thing you can
find in the sky these days. It's just getting low in the sky now
and probably hard to get focused through the thicker atmosphere.
I'm saying this from expereince, since I haven't seen that object in
about 6 weeks now!
Some other farily bright objects you could try later in the
spring/summer would be M8 (Lagoon nebula), M17 (Swan nebula), M13
(nice big globular cluster) and when you get some practice finding
things, try M51 (Whirlpool galaxy) which is nicly placed this time
of year.
Tom
http://www.geocities.com/tegwilym2/astrophotos
<p><p><p><p><p>--- In QCUIAG_at_yahoogroups.com, "robert" <roberth_at_n...> wrote:
<em class="quotelev1">> or is it m42 ?
<em class="quotelev1">> whatever it is it's my first real dso. I'm impressed because I'm
still learning my way
<em class="quotelev1">> around the sky......... can you tell as I'm not sure what it is
LOL.
<em class="quotelev1">> can anybody suggest another target that's as easy to find and
shoot?
<em class="quotelev1">> that I will be able to see with a 130mm newt and a modded toucam
740k
<em class="quotelev1">>
<em class="quotelev1">> yippeee!!! I found one
<em class="quotelev1">> robert
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