[UpsizeThis]

First of all, hello to everyone. I've just been bitten by the astronomy bug recently. After some consideration I bought myself a pair of Pentax 10x50 binos. So far so good, I like them a lot.

But wouldn't you know it... I buy them and we get four cloudy nights in a row. **Shaking my fist at those clouds** But tonight I was blessed with a chance to put them to the test. Up until now, I had only used them for bird-watching. I've gotta say, these are better suited to the night sky.

So there I was, all excited and everything, ahh... such a noob. Lol. And my first thought was, "Wow!" I had no idea how much more you can see with a simple pair of binoculars. Outstanding! I started with Orion, easy enough. I know I'm new to all this but I love that Betelgeuse. I think it's the colour. Then I spotted Rigel, Sirius, Aldebaran and the Pleiades cluster. And I do believe I saw Mars, but I could be wrong. There were a few others that I wasn't too sure about. Gosh, I'm still stoked about these binoculars.

Just one question at the moment though. What should the Orion nebula look like through a pair of 10x50's? To me it appeared as a faint wispy cloud like form, that was blue in colour, with two clearly visible stars in the middle.

Additional:
After doing a bit of research online, I think that I might have been observing M78 instead.