But I do think the world isn’t big enough for these two oversized egos. I predict that they will soon start fighting each other.

That’s true. If an immigrant were to win the nomination, they may be forced to be amend their constitution.

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social I counted the stars in the nebula, using an equal area elsewhere in the same image as a crude control, and found over 700 excess stars in M42/3 and over 130 excess stars in the Running Man Nebula.

It’s a bit like forecasting the weather without all the modern doodads like weather satellites. This thing is 3000 light years away.

factory for making stars, not "masking"
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E11 HD, WO Z73 III, ASI2600MC & other cameras.

Unprocessed images were from Telescope Live in Chile. I processed them.

Here is an annotated copy. Objects whose names begin with TYC are stars. Objects whose names begin with NGC or PGC are galaxies.

This image, in blue light only, shows the spiral structure more clearly.

A Celestron Edge HD 1100 telescope and a ZWO ASI2600MC camera. Image processed in an astronomy package called PixInsight.