March 2005

At left is a 50mm lens and webcam view of the Sword of Orion showing the marvelous Orion Nebula (M42/43) whilst at right is the view through the 10" Newtonian Reflector and a webcam of the trapezium cluster at the heart of the Orion Nebula. The wide field left view was taken on the night of January 8th 2005 and the right hand close up view was taken on the night of February 15th 2005.