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Photos of Orion Nebulae,
taken in 1880 and 1883
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First photograph of the Nebula in Orion. Taken by Professor Henry Draper in 1880. The large stars, being much brighter than the nebula, are greatly overexposed.

Credit: Harvard College Observatory Plate Collection


Photograph of the Orion Nebula taken by A.A. Common in 1883 with an exposure of one hour.

Credit: Agnes M. Clerke A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh, 1887 (2nd Edition), frontispiece.

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