Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  41 Ori A)  ·  41 Ori C  ·  41 Ori D  ·  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 Ori)  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 Ori)  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 Ori)  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  Great Orion Nebula  ·  HD36342  ·  HD36365  ·  HD36366  ·  HD36430  ·  HD36528  ·  HD36539  ·  HD36540  ·  HD36541  ·  HD36559  ·  HD36560  ·  HD36606  ·  HD36629  ·  HD36655  ·  HD36670  ·  HD36671  ·  HD36713  ·  HD36782  ·  HD36813  ·  And 78 more.
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Great Orion Nebula M42, Frank Sackenheim
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M42, or The Great Orion Nebula, or just Orion Nebula, is one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful galactic nebula in the night sky. As a child, I always imagined the Orion Nebula in delicate shades of pink and blue, shimmering slightly over the neighbor’s house. After all, the gas nebula looked very large and colorful in pictures in the books I read at the time. Only then did I realize that this nebula can only be seen in photographs. In my imagination, this moment was the decisive factor in getting involved with astrophotography.

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Great Orion Nebula M42, Frank Sackenheim