Our favourite constellation - Orion the Hunter in all his splendour.

 

Orion over St Michael's Church,
Oulton Broad, Suffolk.

The Constellation Orion showing emission nebulosity
associated with the Orion Loop and Orion's Dagger.

The Flame and the Horsehead Nebula
below Orion's Belt.

The Orion Molecular Cloud
and the Running Man Nebula
in Orion's Dagger

One of the most interesting constellations in the winter northern hemisphere sky. When we see Orion striding across our garden, as we look south, we know that Autumn and Winter stretch before us. It will not be long before it's Christmas.

Many thanks for the photographs, to Kurt Thrust and the team at the Jodrell Plank Observatory, the Uk's most easterly operational astronomic observatory.

https://jodrellplankobservatory.blogspot.com/