Try as I might, I have never actually seen the nebula. There are plenty of pictures to prove it exists, but no eyepiece of mine can resolve it.



I realize binoculars probably have a better chance due to the angular size, but man, I'm growing weary of looking.

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You should get a narrowband nebula filter.

You'll also need a fairly dark site.

I have never tried holding the nebula filter in front of binos, but I would imagine that would work.

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I just looked a couple days ago. I saw nothing.

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Saw it once, with just my own eyes. It was in the mid 80's, from an undisclosed location about 40 miles north of Las Vegas.

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I've seen it more than once with the naked eye while out in Arizona. I don't know if a telescope will show it, in all honesty, as it is HUGE and would possibly be too large and diffuse to make out at all! Binocs could probably do the trick.

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I've seen it on clear moonless nights in my back yard in Eastern Connecticut. It is easier to see from places far from city lights.

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I've seen it many times from dark sites using both binoculars and filtered rich-field telescopes. My 101mm f/5.4 Tele Vue refractor, when equipped with a narrowband or OIII filter and a 35mm Tele Vue Panoptic (4.4 degree TFOV), does a nice job of revealing NGC 7000. BTW, this nebula's name is actually the North America Nebula.

A photo of NGC 7000 that I took at Cherry Springs State Park earlier this month is posted at NGC 7000 (the North America Nebula) from CSSP, 2005/09/05

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that is an amazing picture. There seem to be many more start in that field than in other photos I've seen.




I understand needing to be far from distant light. I've only seen Andromeda a few times and the Perseid Double cluster a few more than that.

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