Date: 15 Jan 2010
Location: Victoria, BC
Equipment: Meade LXD 55 SN 6 with Canon 20Da.
Exposure: 7 x 30 sec.
Processing: Stacking with ImagePlus and processing with Photoshop.

You are looking to the Great Orion Nebula (M42), De Mairan's Nebula (M43) and NGC 1981, a small open cluster which form a W (upper left corner).