>> http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/epsOriave4cropped.jpg Thanks for posting this. It looks reasonably convincing to me, too. I'll pass this along to Corwin to get his reaction. The nebula in Dean's image is about the size of the plotted star-image in either Uranometria or the Millenium atlas, whereas the thing the 19th Century observers saw was at least 0.4 degrees across--- the big ameoba shown on various atlases---though d'Arrest (I think, perhaps another) observed the field using an occulting bar in the eyepiece to block the light of epsilon, and saw nothing. \Brian -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.