In Orion's neighborhood

Here you see the Orion nebula (M42) and its neighborhood running man nebula (NGC 1977).
The Orion's belt is 3 stars in a line and below them are M42 and M43; M42 is the Orion nebula; both located at Orion's sward, and are 1500 light year far from us.
Source: constellations of the Northern sky, by Mark Chartrand

Picture: nojum.ir

NGC 1977, Running Man Nebula
(c) Richard Jacobs, M.D.
January 16, 2005
RCO 0.32m Richey-Chretien OTA at F/6.75 using AP 0.75 telecompressor.
SBIG ST-8XE CCD/CFW-8
L:60 mins, DDP. RGB:6 mins, 2X2 binned

M42/M43 & NGC 1977
(c) Richard Jacobs, M.D.
January 18, 2004
Takahashi E-210 F/3 Astrograph, ST-2000XM CCD/CFW-8
L:45 mins, RGB:4 mins