No constellation is grander or easier to love than Orion, the giant hunter striding across the winter sky with his club raised and his lion's-skin shield before him. Three bright stars form his unmistakable Belt; red Betelgeuse blazes at his shoulder and blue-white Rigel at his foot; and from his belt hangs a sword whose middle "star" is in truth the Great Orion Nebula, a nursery of newborn suns. The hunter the whole world knows.

Maker: after Bayer / Hevelius / Flamsteed
Date: engraved 16th–18th c.
Medium of the original: Plate
Original held by: The great celestial atlases · Linda Hall Library
Credit: The great celestial atlases · Linda Hall Library
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00966

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	480	Excellent	Trimmed 8%
8 x 12 in	434	Excellent	Trimmed 9.5%
11 x 14 in	349	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
12 x 16 in	320	Excellent	Trimmed 1.8%
12 x 18 in	289	Excellent	Trimmed 9.5%
16 x 20 in	240	Excellent	Trimmed 8%
16 x 24 in	217	Excellent	Trimmed 9.5%
18 x 24 in	213	Excellent	Trimmed 1.8%
20 x 30 in	173	Good	Trimmed 9.5%
24 x 30 in	160	Good	Trimmed 8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
24 x 36 in	144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	128 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

3,840 x 5,215 px, srgb, GIMP built-in sRGB

Tone

Darks 142, lights 207 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

51.85

Notes

Narrow tonal range (24 L*): prints soft and even, as the original reads
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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