Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  VdB37
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vdB 37, Gary Imm
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vdB 37

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This object is a small rarely imaged reflection nebula located 1100 light years away in the constellation of Orion at a declination of +37 degrees. The bright central portion of this nebula spans 4 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a width of 1.3 light years.

The nebula is a rare orange color. I assume that this is due to a combination of the star itself being an M-type red giant, as well as the fact that the star is toward the front of the nebula, reducing the filtering and scattering of the light that reaches our eyes.

The source of the nebula is the 7.7 magnitude long period variable star V* V1057 Ori (HIP 24716).

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