Yeah MM, I saw the Orion Nebula through my 8 Mead Newtonian, motor driven German equatorial, it looked like a grayish blue haze. But we both know that the longer the exposure, the more light reaches the photographic medium. So earlier views from earth bound telescopes now seem a bit white washed and fussy when compared to this new Hubble image taken in a space vacuum. Ive also viewed the Andromeda Galaxy and a few of the Messier objects.