Talk:Owl Nebula
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[edit] Seeing the Owl Nebula's "Eyes"
At my dark sky observing session on March 20-21, 2007 near Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, I was able to see the Owl Nebula's "eyes" (using a 12-inch (300 mm) Dobsonian telescope) using a technique called "blinking." By seeing the Owl Nebula without a nebula filter, and then placing a filter between the eyepiece and my eye, the "eyes" of the nebula "flashed" out from witin the disc-like apperance of the nebula. Also, when using low power, you can also see the nearly edge-on spiral galaxy M108. Rwboa22 21:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
