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Re:1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016) by _Microft on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:41AM (#28218905)
The Orion Nebula [0] is appearing relatively large on the sky, about 1° (= 60 arc minutes) wide. This is approximately twice as wide as a full moon appears on the sky. With a telescope, you should easily be able to make out details. It's the white-ish blob in the "vertical" chain of stars in the lower center of this image [1]. The yellow-orange star in the top left is Betelgeuse by the way. It was in the news a while ago because it had dimmed a lot and some people (not astronomers though) were hoping for a supernova. That's a different one from "Tabby's Star" which was also in the news because of unexpected dimming.

Drawing comes with practice by the way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Nebula

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Orion_co...

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