[erick (Eric)]

Last Saturday evening, I made a sustained effort to observe the Running Man. Am I being too optimistic with my equipment? I've just read "The running man shape appears easily in CCD images, but is much more difficult to detect visually. In fact nebulosity around these stars is not readily visible in 6"-8" scopes."

I did see the nebulosity on Saturday. I was sure I almost could see the shape at Snake Valley some weeks ago. I didn't have quite as dark skies on Saturday as there are at Snake Valley. I couldn't make out the shape. Any tricks/filters I should be using?

I was picking out the main dark lane in the Flame (NGC 2024) quite readily, once I moved Alnitak out of the FOV. BTW, I was splitting the double at Alnitak easily.