The Constellations
Orion, the Hunter
The most magnificent figure in the sky.
- Chart
- The constellation Orion
- Astronomer
- After Bayer / Hevelius / Flamsteed
- Date
- engraved 16th–18th c.
- Held by
- The great celestial atlases · Linda Hall Library
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
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.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Orion, the Hunter printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by The great celestial atlases · Linda Hall Library — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.
