M1 (Kirby Collins)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: Crab nebula · LBN 833 · M 1 · NGC 1952 · Sh2-244

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On July 4, 1054 a supernova appeared in the region of the sky we know as the constellation Taurus. The "guest star" was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers, and was bright enough to be visible in the daylight for over three weeks. An Ancestral Puebloan pictograph at Chaco Canyon may also be a record of the event.

Left behind were a rapidly spinning neutron star and an expanding cloud of gas that is now approximately 6 light years across. The nebula was first spotted by John Bevis in 1731. Halley initially mistook it for a comet in 1758, and started his famous list of nebular objects: "What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year...This nebula had such a resemblance to a comet in its form and brightness that I endeavored to find others, so that astronomers would not confuse these same nebulae with comets just beginning to shine."

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Astrometry.net job	5416982
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h34m32s.48
RA (top/left)	05h31m59s.35
RA (top/right)	05h32m23s.67
RA (bottom/right)	05h37m04s.25
RA (bottom/left)	05h36m42s.63

Dec (center)	+22°01′10″.8
Dec (top/left)	+22°42′22″.6
Dec (top/right)	+21°15′48″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°19′47″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+22°46′25″.2

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