Orion Nebula M42 and the running man nebula on the top left

"The Orion Nebula Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) is the brightest starforming, and the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, and also one of the brightest deepsky objects at all. Shining with the brightness of a star of 4th magnitude, it visible to the naked eye under moderately good conditions, and rewarding in telescopes of every size, from the smallest glasses to the greatest Earth-bound observatories as well as outer-space observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope. It is also a big object in the sky, extending to over 1 degree in diameter, thus covering more than four times the area of the Full Moon." -SEDS.org

NGC 1977
Bright (emission and/or reflection) nebula in Orion.


Takahashi FSQ 106EDX on a EM 200 Temma 2 mount
ST2000XM with Astrodon i-series LRGB filters
Luminance: 12x 5mins, RGB: 6 x 5 mins each. Trapezium exposure: 10 x10 secs each for LRGB channel.
Image capture with MaxIm DL. Image processing with CCD Stack and Photoshop CS2
Taken on February 2008, trapezium taken on April 2, 2008 in Jackson, Ohio