@moonlegsphotography: All I want to do is capture data and teach people about the night sky. Super El Niño is making that extremely difficult so far. 😭 Here’s my first look at the Orion Nebula this season. The Great Orion Nebula (Messier 42) is a massive, luminous diffuse nebula located approximately 1,344 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. It serves as one of the closest and most actively studied stellar nurseries, where intense ultraviolet radiation from newborn stars illuminates vibrant clouds of interstellar gas and dust. ##superelnino##astrophotography