The orion nebula is HDR

[John1956PA]

1. Your High Def. Resolution photo of M42 is the best I have seen.

In looking at the images which come up on a web search, I can find no other image which shows the details of the "turkey head" (my silly term) with the background wisps. Gathering the shots, layering and knitting them, and then formatting took a great deal of patience and skill. Thank you for sharing this marvelous image.

As an aside, I will mention something you probably already know, but maybe some DUers do not. The "M" numbering for nebulae go back to the French astronomer Messier. He was looking for comets. Whenever he discovered a non-comet blurry patch (which he would regard as a nuisance) he gave it a number. As astronomy evolved, it became apparent that the blurry patches (i.e., nebulae) were more important than comets. Hence, Messier's identification system for nebulae is used to this day.