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  2. Star chart - Wikipedia

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    An online star chart; Monthly sky maps for every location on Earth Archived 2007-09-13 at the Wayback Machine; The Evening Sky Map – Free monthly star charts and calendar for northern hemisphere, southern hemisphere, and equatorial sky watchers. Sky Map Online – Free interactive star chart (showing over 1.2 million stars up to magnitude 12)

  3. List of stars in Orion - Wikipedia

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    • Notes = Common name(s) or alternate name(s); comments; notable properties [for example: multiple star status, range of variability if it is a variable star, exoplanets, etc.] See also [ edit ]

  4. Orion (constellation) - Wikipedia

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    Orion as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of star chart cards published in London c. 1825 Orion's seven brightest stars form a distinctive hourglass-shaped asterism, or pattern, in the night sky. Four stars—Rigel, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix , and Saiph —form a large roughly rectangular shape, at the center of which lies the three stars of ...

  5. Palisa-Wolf-Star Map - Wikipedia

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    Palisa-Wolf-Sternatlas - picture in the star constellation Orion. The Palisa-Wolf-Star Map or Palisa-Wolf-Star Atlas (German: Palisa-Wolf-Sternatlas) is a map series produced between 1900 and 1916 as well as published between 1900 and 1931, which shows the entire starry sky visible in Europe in 210 large-scale sheets.

  6. Uranometria - Wikipedia

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    Uranometria 's page of the constellation Orion. Uranometria is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer.It was published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mang (Christophorus Mangus) [1] under the full title Uranometria: omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo delineata, aereis laminis expressa (from Latin: Uranometria, containing charts of all the constellations, drawn by a new ...

  7. Trapezium Cluster - Wikipedia

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    The Trapezium or Orion Trapezium Cluster, also known by its Bayer designation of Theta 1 Orionis (θ 1 Orionis), is a tight open cluster of stars in the heart of the Orion Nebula, in the constellation of Orion. It was discovered by Galileo Galilei. On 4 February 1617 he sketched three of the stars (A, C and D), but missed the surrounding ...

  8. Messier 78 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 78 or M78, also known as NGC 2068, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included by Charles Messier in his catalog of comet-like objects that same year. [4] M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that includes NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071.

  9. W Orionis - Wikipedia

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    W Orionis is a carbon star in the constellation Orion, approximately 400 parsecs (1,300 ly) away. It varies regularly in brightness between extremes of magnitude 4.4 and 6.9 roughly every 7 months. When it is near its maximum brightness, it is faintly visible to the naked eye of an observer with good observing conditions.