I shot a couple pictures of the constellation Orion the other night. It wasn't as clear as the night I got the LMC pictures, but it was still pretty good. Seeing these images has me wanting to get back out and try to frame the constellation better. I took four 3 minute exposures and combined them into a panorama in Lightroom.
I drew some lines on the wide field shot so you can see the outline of Orion, the belt and the sword. Betelgeuse is the orange star on the left side and Rigel is the blue white star on the right side. All the red stuff swooping around the scene is nebulosity. It is known as the Orion molecular cloud complex.
For the second image, I cropped in to the sword and belt area so you can see more detail, like the flame nebula, the horsehead nebula, the running man nebula, and M42 the Orion Nebula.
If I don't get back out to image Orion again this year, due to haze, the waxing moon, etc. I'll probably have another go at processing these shots. I usually come back to them after some time ahs passed and try different techniques.
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