This image is a bit of an experiment, playing with the high dynamic range mode of a QHY600 camera. The goal was to try to show in an image all of the features of M42/43 and the Running Man, from the small stars around the Trapezium, to the faint wisps of gas and dust surrounding the area. For this I did two series of subexposures. One with the camera in high dynamic range mode (13.8 stops) and with exposures such that no stars were saturated in the trapezium (100 sec), and another with the camera in my usual deep space mode and taking 5 minutes exposures. They were both combined, such that the core is basically the first stack and the rest is a combination. The final result is a bit weird, and possibly too flat, but lots of details are visible.