Horse head and Orion Nebulas APOD

Both of these nebulas, the Horsehead Nebula and the Orion Nebula lay within the extremely constilation Orion. The Horsehead Nebula is the one on the lower left corner witht the Orion Nebula in the upper right corner.

 

This picture was taken in Siville, Southern Spain on October 5th. The picture was taken within the time span of two hours using a long exposure shot. 

NGC 7841, known as the Smoke Nebula, is found in the modern constellation of Frustriaus, the frustrated astrophotographer. Only a few light-nanoseconds from planet Earth, The Smoke Nebula is not an expanding supernova remnant along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, though it does look a lot like one; instead it was created by flash photography of rising smoke. A single exposure and three external flashes were triggered to capture the not-quite-cosmic snapshot.