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Orion has made the difficult decision to close our warehouse facility in the Netherlands. With the continuing supply chain/logistics challenges and slowness in the economy we have found that it is not economically feasible to maintain operations in the UK and Europe.
We have therefore stopped taking orders on this website. We apologize for any inconvenience.
We will continue to have Orion dealers in Europe to meet the needs of Orion consumers. We will also continue to honor the 30-Day product return period as well as honoring the Orion warranty for purchases made in the UK and Europe.
Our US-based Customer Service Representatives are here to help. Contact them via email at support@telescope.com or in the United Kingdom, via phone at 0-800-041-8146 (Monday-Friday between the hours of 1300 and 2400 GMT).
Looking like a colorful cosmic fireworks display, the area surrounding the stars Antares and Rho Ophiuchi, on the border between the constellations Scorpius and Ophiuchus, dazzles with colorful emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity and star clusters.
At left is the tri-star Rho Ophiuchus, surrounded by a blue reflection nebula called IC 4604. Dark dust lanes billow to the lower right of it. The bright yellowish star at lower right is 1st-magnitde star Antares in a pool of yellow emission and reflection nebulosity. Near the top of the photo, bathing in red emission nebula Sh2-9, is the bright star Sigma Scorpius. The big globular cluster M4 glitters in the upper right of the image, and if you look closely you'll see another, smaller globular to its lower left-that's NGC 6144.
This expansive region of the summer Milky Way is perfect for wide-field photography with a camera lens, in this case a 200mm focal-length lens.