I recently got an orion XT10 IS, and although I have not had a chance to
get to a dark site, I did have a chance to take a peek at the orion
nebula from my porch. Having only seen it before in lower quality and
much smaller apperature scopes, it always appeared as a grey fuzzy.

From my highly light polluted porch (chicago suburbs), the nebula
appears very clearly green. (I am not using any filters) None of the
pictures I have seen show it as green.

Is this the real color? (visible wavelengths) Or perhaps is it that my
eye is just more sensitive to green and not getting enough light to see
the other parts of the spectrum? Or possibly just a funny result of
light pollution?

Mark