The sky opened up unexpectedly tonight (finally)! I was going to stay up longer to see the last three targets from my goal last year, but clouds started rolling in again around 9pm.
Great view of the Orion Nebula tonight! I got more details out of it than any time before. After prolonged viewing, I was able to see darker patches in the glow of the nebula, adding a bit of "noise" to the overall view. As far as M43 is concerned, I wasn't sure exactly what to look for. After coming in for the night, I had to look up where it was exactly in relation to M42. It appears that the small round glow north of the major glow is M43? I always thought it was part of M42.
Nice little cluster. It took a while to find as there wasn't much that drew my eyes towards it at first. After some prolonged viewing, I was able to see a multitude of pinpricks of light appear. AV was required to find and to get any sort of detail of out it. Found by jumping from M44 to α Cancri, then moving a little west.
