Orion had just cleared the trees at 5am this morning and I couldn't resist having a go at M42.
Camera - Canon Powershot, tripod mounted.
56 x 3.2sec exposures, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, processed in PaintShopPro and I smoothed out the noise with Neat Image.
Next time I might drop the exposure down to 2.5 seconds and try to ditch the trails.