The star Alnitak (ζ Ori)

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The bright star Alnitak glows next to the brilliant orange Flame Nebula, NGC2024. Instead of the more popular framing with the Horsehead Nebula, I tried something different and framed it with M78, the dusty reflection nebula in the lower left. This is the result.
Fire and Ghosts
A wide angle view of Orion next to a winter arrangement of bright Aldebaran, Mars, and the Pleiades.
Orion Mars and M45
A clear 50mm snap of Orion at its height in the winter sky.
⭐ Orion 2023
Clear skies, a stable mount called the Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi, 30 1-minute exposures with a Sony Alpha 6300 camera, and the fast 50mm manual focus f/1.4 lens by Samyang all conspired to bring you this image.
Orion exposed at 50mm
A detailed exposure that illustrates the major stars and nebulae.
The Full Orion
A very tropical Orion rises above the palm trees on Grand Cayman.
The Tropical Orion
The scene of the horse and the flame has always been one of my favorites even as one of the most popular targets. It contains a bit of everything; dust and dark nebulae, reflection and emission nebulae, bright stars and brilliant colors. I grabbed some extra time on this target last night. Here's my latest incarnation.
⭐ The Horse and the Flame 2023
This classic pairing of well-named nebulae Horsehead and Flame is one of my favorite regions in the night sky. It has a bit of everything, from a brilliantly shining star to bright tongues of heat blazing from the Flame Nebula, to the horse head's shadow casting a silhouette on billowing intergalactic dust. I'll keep improving my technique for this target!
⭐ The Horse and the Flame
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