M42 and the Running man NGC 1977

Last night, I spent time taking further exposures of this nebula with the intention of adding them to the exposures I'd obtained a few nights ago.

Below is the resultant image, I've also extended the area at the top of the photograph to show NGC 1977 the Running man nebula, which is now becoming obvious. Also a lot more of the thin wispy surrounding nebula is beginning to reveal itself.



80 mm refractor, Astronomik CLS filter and a standard Canon 10D DSLR.
42 x 40 seconds exposures at ISO 800, stacked and aligned in Nebulosity and finished in Photoshop.
These extra exposures were added to the image seen here.