Orion and M42, M43 & NGC1977 12/12/04 - Les Gamble

Orion photographed from Culloden Battlefield car park, 17th December 2004 2300hrs. There were a couple of inches of snow on the ground and the temperature had dropped well below freezing. I only managed to expose one film before the cold wore me down. Tripod mounted Pentax ME-Super. 50mm f/1.7 Pentax lens. Tesco ISO 400. 15 seconds @ f1.7 Inset shows Orion Nebula and De Mairan's Nebula. Cropped in Photoshop 6.0 (Inset enlarged and sharpened´2) Les