Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Crab nebula  ·  M 1  ·  NGC 1952  ·  Sh2-244
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M1 - The Crab Nebula, a Supernova Remnant, Jeffrey K Lovelace
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M1 - The Crab Nebula, a Supernova Remnant

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M1 - The Crab Nebula, a Supernova Remnant, Jeffrey K Lovelace
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M1 - The Crab Nebula, a Supernova Remnant

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Data Acquisition from 2019-11-22 until 2020-12-19

DSO Color Mapping: Stars RGB, Nebula SNH-OH-OH

Original Image Scale: 0.54

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This is, of course, the first object penned in Charles Messier's famous list of Deep Sky Objects, the first list of its kind. This accomplishment was a complete accident, best described as Messier's catalogue of "strange things that definitely are not comets, so just ignore them."

In the mid and late 1700s Messier and all of Europe were thrilled by the fad of spotting comets. He created this list to warn others away from these fixed, faint, and fuzzy objects so no one would mistake them for anything really exciting. If only he knew...

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M1 - The Crab Nebula, a Supernova Remnant, Jeffrey K Lovelace