Hands to Claim Unbounded Night

The Great Orion Nebula, M42 and M43
By Serge Vieillard

This color drawing of the Great Orion Nebula was created by Serge 
Vieillard during a trip to the Libyan desert to view the Solar 
Eclipse of March 2006. Serge created this colored pencil drawing as a 
negative on white paper and inverted it after scanning to create the 
positive image seen here. In order to get the colors correct for this 
inverted image, he did extensive testing beforehand so he had the 
correct complimentary colors in his sketching supplies (an orange 
pencil for the blue-green hues, and a green pencil for the rose 
colored areas). Serge spent two hours illustrating this magnificent 
nebula. He notes that two hours was not nearly enough to sufficiently 
capture all of the fine detail visible.