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The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest, most beautiful and best known nebula in the night sky. The nebula is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye (it's the middle 'star' in Orion's scabbard). Binoculars or a small telescope show its nebulosity. Viewed from a dark site through a larger telescope, the nebulosity is nothing short of magnificent.

M42 is primarily an emission nebula, so it emits red light. It is also an active star forming region.

This object was imaged from my back yard in Las Cruces, NM (before somebody built a brightly illuminated yellow house down the street)

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Telescope:

Celestron NexStar 11" OTA