M.17 the Omega Nebula Finish:none children and a servant gathered

children and a servant gathered round a drinking well

on the Salisbury Plain at Knighton Down

(now Southwark Cathedral)

Old Division One

M.17 the Omega Nebula Finish:none children and a servant gatheredPlate 12 figure 35 for the paper 'Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833', by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. A study of Messier 17 in the constellation of Sagittarius , inscribed verso, in ink: 'Messier's 17th Nebula with several of the included and neighbouring stars, as laid down