I remember years ago ... I was out one night with the 30" in Arizona... I remember it was a nicely transparent night with good seeing and I happen to be cruising around at 500X... and I happened upon this GORGEOUS object... it was listed as an NGC number... I didn't recognize the number ... but was utterly stunned at the beauty and complexity of the object. I always had excellent color vision, I've seen red surrounding M82, and color in planetaries is common place - a real show... and this one was showing me hints of color.. I studied it for some time as I was wont to do ... just incredible... went back over to Megastar and took a look..."OH - of course - M76!" ... if you can see this one under very good+ conditions at higher power... take the time - its well worth it.
And superb image Richard - congrats!
Gary Myers
StellarCAT
