Testing out and configuring replacement laptop after old one got washed away in observatory leak! Took a few frames of the Running Man nebula. Topaz is great for removing noise in images with too few frames. This only had 4 frames and once stretched was very noisy. Looks great after Topaz-ing.
| Object ID | NGC1977 Running Man Nebula Orion |
| Details | 2020-12-16 23:18UT Poor seeing, guiding 0.8″ and a little windy |
| Telescope | 250mm f4.8 Newtonian MPCC, IDAS P2 |
| Camera | QHY 168C @15°C Gain/offset 2/20 |
| Exposure(s) | 5x180s 1×1 darks, bias only – so a little vignetting, removed in processing |
| Capture | N.I.N.A. PHD2 |
| Processing | SiriL, Photoshop, Topaz DeNoise AI |