Hi Uwe,

I can't contribute too much to the Barnard's Loop. I never really tried it seriously. It is very common that fog covers basically the whole of Hungary in winter for weeks. (We had the same this winter - and nobody saw the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction from the country..)

I had a sneak peek in the big Fujinon binoculars at Hakos, Namibia in 2016. With 2 H-beta filters held in front of the eyepieces the Barnard's Loop was basically visible at first sight as I remember (no sketch or notes).

There are so many beautiful objects on the winter sky I would like to draw.