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Running Man Nebula (NGC1977), Awni Hafedh
Running Man Nebula (NGC1977)
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Running Man Nebula (NGC1977), Awni Hafedh
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Dec 14, 2023 - Running Man Nebula (NGC1977)

This will probably be my last image for this year, nothing fancy about it. For some reason I was motivated to capture Orion Nebula and the Running Man, I spend a lot of time at the beginning of the session trying to figure out why the autofocus doesn't work and what is going wrong, and also figure Orion Nebula is to big for my camera's sensor size, so I switched to the Running Man and let that thing capture subs all night long.
I did capture that same target three years ago and back them I was really happy, but I figure that I moved to a darker zone (from bortle 7 to bortle 5) and have a much sensitive camera now (from ASI1600MC to ASI533MC) and a much faster and powerful processing tools including BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator ... I mean why not ... and boy I was amazed with the final results.

Captured 90x3min subs which makes it close to 4.5 hours of integration time.

Equipment used
Celestron 9.25" with 0.7x reducer
ZWO ASI533MC Camera
Astronomik filter
iOptron CEM60 mount

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Running Man Nebula (NGC1977), Awni Hafedh