M43
M43 is a diffuse nebulous belonging to the great nebula of Orion M42.
She is discovered in 1731 by Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan, which sees a “ brilliant nebulosity surrounding a star ”. In its drawing of M42, Charles Messier gives him a particular number, M43, in 1769. William Herschel catalogued it itself like H III.1.
M43 is lit by the star HD 37061, Nu Orionis magnitude 7, and would contain a stellar Amas.
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