Yesterday night it was one of the rare clear winter (yes it is winter here in NL) nights so I did some visual observing and took a shot of Orion with the Canon 50mm f/2.5 "Compact Macro" squeezed to f/4, 6 sec @ ASA 3200. Postprocessed in Photoshop.
As I live in the Northern Hemisphere, Orion is 'upside down'. I was amazed that this picture shows till mag +9. No, I don't live in a dark outback location, but in light polluted Holland. My home is one of the better places with a Bortle 5 rating.
http://skysurfer.eu/skypics1/Orion-20141225.jpg
haven't been to the northern latitudes so seeing the "hunter" right way up chasing the bull and the Pleiades is always good 
