Object: The Great Orion Nebula MESSIER 42       Constell: ORI

RA: 05h 25.3m           Decl: -05° 23'          Epoch: 2000
Mag: 4m                 Size: 66'x60'           Type: E+R

Observer: Jere Kahanpää
Obs. place: Jyväskylä, Finland
Date/Time: 27./28.2.1992, 22.00

Telescope: R 150/2063
Magn: 167x              Filter:
Field: 18'              NE Lim.mag: 5.2m
Background sky: 4       Seeing: 2 
Weather: Quite poor.               

Brightness: 2           Alt:    
Description: Wow. Four stars in the trapezium - additional stars
looked for but not seen. The 'Sinus Magnus' area (the dark bay
protubing from N) is very sharply defined. The brightest parts
near the Trapezium are very strongly and sharply mottled - an
effect I cannot draw.