Orion Nebula, Don Curry

Orion Nebula

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Orion Nebula is the brightest star forming and diffuse nebula in the sky. It extends over 1 degree of the sky and contains many blue hot young stars. The Trapezium Cluster formed at the mouth of Orion consist of 6 very young ( open clusters) labeled A,C,D,E,F,H.

The distance is 1.3LY 4.0 Visual Brightness. Also in this widefield image is "The Running Man". NGC 1977 which is a diffuse Nebula found along the sword of Orion some 1,460 light years away in the constellation Orion

Comments

Histogram

Orion Nebula, Don Curry

In these public groups

Cloudy Nights