That nebula photo you shared might be upside down

I noticed about half the Orion Nebula shots in this forum have the Trapezium cluster on the wrong side. I checked my own astrophoto from last October against Stellarium and realized I'd been posting it backwards for months. Has anyone else caught themselves mirroring images by accident?

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abbyf799d ago

Wait, @casey268 you had a whole star pattern flipped... I used to say orientation didn't matter but now I get it.

casey2689d ago

Man, I once spent a whole week thinking I'd discovered a new star pattern in a photo before my buddy pointed out I had it flipped. Felt like a real genius, haha.

shane_wilson9d ago

Oh man, I once argued with a friend for an hour about a painting before realizing it was upside down.