The first star chart showing the Crab Nebula, M1, drawn by John Bevis, who discovered M1 in 1731. M1 is the faintly painted nebula slightly upper-right (NE) of Zeta, at the tip of the lower (southern) horn of Taurus the Bull.
From the Linda Hall Library's Out of This World exhibition of celestial atlasses, Bevis' Uranographia Britannica - comparison of Bevis' with Bayer's star chart.
Last Modification: April 11, 2002