Technical details: Location / Date: Outside of Ramnäs, Västmanland, Sweden / 2014-February Optics: Skywatcher Explorer 190MN, Skywatcher 102mm Guide-Scope Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 PRO Synscan Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III (Unmodded), Skywatcher Synguider (Stand alone autoguider) Exposure: 20x180 seconds + 17x45seconds + 35x8 seconds, all ISO 3200 (cumulative exposure time is 1 hour, 17 minutes and 25 seconds) Processing: Pixinsight and Photoshop   Image details: The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is an example of a stellar nursery where new stars are being born. Observations of the nebula have revealed approximately 700 stars in various stages of formation within the nebula. Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have yielded the major discovery of protoplanetary disks within the Orion Nebula, which have been dubbed proplyds. HST has revealed more than 150 of these within the nebula, and they are considered to be systems in the earliest stages of solar system formation. The sheer numbers of them have been used as evidence that the formation of star systems is fairly common in our universe.(Information from Wikipedia)