ETX-125 and M43

Martin Brown wrote in message ...

Are you by any chance partially red-green colour blind? The central
patch of M42 in a small scope seems pretty bright to me.

No, my color vision is perfectly normal, as far as I know.

The central part of M42 seems quite bright to me in a small
scope at high magnification. But that central area is truly
tiny, probably no more than 4' across, and at low magnification,
as in 7X or 10X binoculars, it just looks like a haze around
the brilliant Trapezium stars, much as though the optics were
fogged up.

- Tony Flanders