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Originally Posted by davidpretorius
will you see the lovely blues and reds via a 10" or 12" dob with or without filters.
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they are right of course. most DSOs wont show any colour at all. though that said, thru my 8" m42 is a brilliant green and some other nebulars show some green colouration too. another nebula that shows stunning colour id the ghost of jupiter nebula... try hunting it down.
as for the helix, its hard enuff to see as it is. it a huge nebula but its dim. alot of skycharts and astro programs give it a fairly bright magnitude but they get this number by condensing all the light produce by the object into a pin point... of course the light is spread out and so therefore is much dimmer that thier claimed magnitude. The helix is situated about half way inbetween the bottom star of capricorn and procyon (the bright sat to the right). use a low magnification EP and a LPR filter if you have one and good luck
I feel like an expert now I have found it
