Orange Betelgeuse shines brightly in the upper left, and Rigel is the bright star on the lower right.  Barnard's Loop, the half-circle red band on the left, is easily visible in this deep exposure.  Inside the loop, near the leftmost belt star, the Horsehead and Flame Nebula area is visible.  M42, the great nebula in Orion, is below that and overexposed, something to work on someday ;-)  The large circular red area  on top is Sh2-264.  This is a major star-forming area, with the red color coming from glowing clouds of hydrogen gas.  Winter Milky Way Area: See this image combined together with other areas.   Other Pictures from the Davis Mountains are here

Photo Details (above): 16 x 4 minutes = 64 minutes total exposure time.  3/15/2007 from the Davis Mountains, TX, USA. Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), with Nikon 28mm f2.8 AIS lens operating at f4, Losmandy G-11 mount.  My current image processing workflow is here.

Close-ups of some great areas:

Horsehead and Flame Nebula

Orion Nebula

Winter Milky Way Area: This image stitched together with other areas.

Orion Area, wide angle (film)

My Messier Pictures