Pleades

[Barrett William]

How hard is it, to see the nebula around the Pleades? Is it even
possible with the slightest bit of light pollution?

Mik

[Ed Knight]

I live in a moderately light polluted area and this kills me every time
that I have attempted to see the nebula...Right now there is a full moon and
it washes out even the Orion nebula..Maybe it will be more visiable when
there is a new moon...

Ed

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Barrett William wrote in message <34DFB7...@sympatico.ca>...

[Jay Reynolds Freeman]

> How hard is it, to see the nebula around the Pleades? Is it even
> possible with the slightest bit of light pollution?

Light pollution, or less than very transparent sky, interferes
considerably with seeing the Pleiades nebulosity. In good conditions,
however, quite a lot of it can be seen in a 7x50 binocular.

--

Jay Reynolds Freeman -- freeman at netcom dot com -- I speak only for myself.

[Alex Vrenios]

In article <freeman-not-h...@netcom.com>,

Jay Reynolds Freeman <freeman-...@netcom.com> wrote:
>> How hard is it, to see the nebula around the Pleades? Is it even
>> possible with the slightest bit of light pollution?
>
> Light pollution, or less than very transparent sky, interferes
>considerably with seeing the Pleiades nebulosity. In good conditions,
>however, quite a lot of it can be seen in a 7x50 binocular.
>

Right. In the NW suburbs of Chicago, on a very cold but clear
winter night, I tried my then new Nikon 7x50s and saw it. I have
never seen it since.

[alb...@ezin.net]

In article <Eo6CL...@ennews.eas.asu.edu>, vre...@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu says...

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Sometimes the optics you are using will give some symmetrical
light around bright stars like this. You will have to look
at other stars of the same brightness to determine if you
really see the nebulosity. If you have a _very dark site_ and
use the lowest power that will work on your scope, you stand
a very good chance. It seems to me that my 5" refractor lets
me see it on good nights (as great expanses of blue light) better
than my 16". I see it in both scopes, and can judge the
transparency of the night by the amount of nebulosity seen.

On a very good night I like it a lot better than photographs---
---it just takes your breath away!
-al

[Lawrence Youm]

Barrett William wrote:
>
> How hard is it, to see the nebula around the Pleades? Is it even
> possible with the slightest bit of light pollution?
>

> Mik

I can see the nebula in the Pleiades with my Starfinder 8 with the
Lumicon Deep-Sky Filter without any moon in the heavily light polluted
area in the western part of Houston. I also used averted vision that
time.