This is a portrait of a field in the "club" of Orion the Hunter, in northern Orion, that contains the emission nebula (at top) catalogued as Sharpless 2-262, or LBN 863, but known popularly as Lower's Nebula for its discovery in 1939 by the father and son team of Harold and Charles Lower. Below it just right of centre is the small, loose star cluster NGC 2169, with its stars arranged in a number 37 or XY pattern. It is sometimes called the Number 37 Cluster. At lower left is the rich star cluster NGC 2194. The small red nebula above NGC 2194 is Sharpless 2-269, with faint Sh2-267 above it. A r

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