The Rosette Nebula

If you look just to the top left of Orion, there’s a small, unassuming, cluster of stars.

It doesn’t look like very much. Even a single, ten second, camera exposure doesn’t reveal a great deal.

However, if you persist in taking photos for about half an hour, and then artificially brighten the result, you get this.

This is the Rosette Nebula. Taken last night, 22 Feb, with my Seestar S50. This description from Wikipedia.

“The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of 5,000 light-years from Earth[6] and measure roughly 130 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosette_Nebula

The Sky at Night has more information and pictures.

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/astrophotography/nebulae/the-rosette-nebula