Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9235
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M.78 nebula in Orion
Date
1833
Creator
John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871, British) , Astronomer
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height (drawing): 98mm
width (drawing): 86mm
width (drawing): 86mm
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Description
Plate 12 figure 36 for the paper "Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty-feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833", by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.123 (1833), pp.359-505. A study of Messier 78 in the constellation of Orion, with a scale of 0-5 minutes which does not appear on the final plate version of the illustration. Inscribed verso, in pencil, "78 Messier...sweeps 107,113". With right ascension and North polar distance.
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