Object Description: Arguably the most photographed region in the sky, also known as "The Sword of Orion". On the left side of the image is NGC1977, the "Running Man Nebula". On the right is M42, the Orion Nebula. And in between in the center is the comma shaped nebula, M43. The image is oriented North to the left.

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106N
Camera: Canon 40D self-modified w/ Baader UV/IR cut filter
Mount: ParamountME unguided
Filters: none

Date Taken: 21NOV2009
Location: Lot4, Arcturus Way, Sacramento Mountains Astronomy Park, Weed, NM
Sky Conditions: transparency 5/5, seeing averaged 1.96 arcseconds for the night
Image Acquisition: 22x300s, (12x15s, 12x60s core stacks) iso800 using CCDCommander & CCDSoft

Image Processing: ImagesPlus 3.80 used for data reduction, alignment, SigMed combine, initial DDP. PSCS2 used for levels, curves, core stack combining, and color enhancement. GradX for background equalization.