It is the most visible and most popular deep space object in the sky. You can easily spot the Orion Nebula (M42) with your naked eye. It’s the middle object (it looks like a star with the naked eye) in Orion’s sword. While M42 gets all of the attention, this shot captures the “sword” of Orion in its entirety.
At the top is the first Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977) and at the bottom is the open star cluster NGC 1980 and Iota Orionis (the bright star system at the bottom of M42).
At only 1,500 light-years away, M42 is the closest large star-forming region to Earth.
The photo in the comments shows you how to spot M42.
Captured with my Seestar S50 smart telescope.
by Astro_HikerAZ