Orion Nebula

This One is in Color

Here is what the SEDS website has to say about this nebula: "Located at a distance of about 1,600 (or perhaps 1,500) light years, the Orion Nebula is the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky, visible to the naked eye, and rewarding in telescopes of every size, from the smallest glasses to the greatest Earth-bound observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope."

Diffuse Nebula M42 (NGC 1976), an emission and reflection nebula, in Orion

Picture Credit:
Lee Freel

Taken on Feb. 10, 2002
Meade 8 inch LX200 on home built wedge
Kodak Gold ISO400 color negative film. 
Exposure time 10 minutes, guided with Celestron off axis guider. 
Adobe photoshop unsharp mask and sharpening.