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As the Orion Nebula was the 42nd object in his list, it became identified as M42. Henry Draper's 1880 photograph of the Orion Nebula, the first ever taken. One of Andrew Ainslie Common's 1883 photographs of the Orion Nebula, the first to show that a long exposure could record new stars and nebulae invisible to the human eye.
The Orion Nebula M42 with NGC 1980 on the right (right is south) NGC 1980 (also known as OCL 529, Collinder 72 and The Lost Jewel of Orion [6]) is a young open cluster associated with an emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1786. [7]
A labeled map of the Orion molecular cloud, with the images taken by IRAS and various telescopes that mapped CO in this part of the sky. The following is a list of notable regions within the larger complex: Orion A molecular cloud The Orion Nebula, also known as M42 (part of Orion's Sword) M43, which is part of the Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula, mosaiced from 520 Hubble photos Same image, 9x larger. Full size comparison from the original to the right and the 9x larger version to the left. Click to see full size.(The closeup is of the bright blue star on the lower right) Edit 1 by Fir0002 - how's that for supersaturation!
Orion's Sword is a compact asterism in the constellation Orion. It comprises three stars (42 Orionis, Theta Orionis, and Iota Orionis) and M42, the Orion Nebula, which together are thought to resemble a sword or its scabbard. This group is south of the prominent asterism, Orion's Belt. Fables and old beliefs are in Europe dominated or widely ...
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Commercial, freeware and free software packages are available specifically for astronomical photographic image manipulation. [17] "Lucky imaging" is a secondary technique that involves taking a video of an object rather than standard long exposure photos. Software can then select the highest quality images which can then be stacked. [18]