NGC6334 the Cat's Paw Nebula

[Gerald_db]

NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw is an emission nebula located in the constellation Scorpius, near the tip of the Scorpion' s tail.

Captured 12th July 2020, Eshowe, South Africa.

AT 127EDT 950mm f7.5 telescope
Celestron CGEM mount
Onion 60mm guide scope
ZWO ASI 290 mini guide camera
Canon 1300D full spectrum
Astronomik CLS CCD filter

22 x 360 sec 800iso Lights
22 x Darks
22 x Bias
20 x Flats

Capture sequence with N.I.N.A.
PHD2 guiding
PixInsight using the new EZ scripts

[Larry 1969]

Nice!
I just looked it up and it seems it'll never get high enough for me...
Thanks for sharing!

Larry

[OzEclipse]

Thanks Gerald,

Great image of this wonderful object.

Joe

[Juno16]

Very very nice image Gerald!

[MariusD69]

Wonderful image! Well done, Gerald!

[Gordon]

Congratulations Gerald on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!!

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[Makuser]

Hi Gerald. A superb Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC6334) from the southern hemisphere. You have very nice nebulosity color and details in your capture. Thanks for sharing this nice work with us on here Gerald and congratulations on winning the TSS APOD Award today.

[Ruud]

Ooh, nice! Where I am we don't get to see this one. A shame, want dit is 'n pragtige nevel.

Thanks for sharing!

[TheButcher]

Excellent image and thanks for sharing. Congrats on the APOD!

[STEVE333]

Nice one Gerald. Lovely rich colors. That nebula is a good match to your FOV. Congratulations of the APOD.

Steve

[BABOafrica]

Congrats on the TSS APOD. Well deserved on a target we don't see posted that often here.

BABO

[ic_1101]

Beautiful capture Gerald, don't see this one often. Congrats on the TSS APOD!

[Gerald_db]

Thanks everyone for your comments. Had struggled initially with the processing and shelved. Then watched a YouTube video on a review of DarkArcon's new EZ Process scripts for PixInsight and used my stacked image to try out the scripts and was chuffed with the end result.

[yobbo89]

very nice image of the paw, you have some shot noise ? for some reason the horizontal noise is inherent in your image, a typical behaviour from a ccd, i wounder why bias frame isn't taking care of that ...

[jthommes]

Nice one Gerald. Congrats on the APOD.

[Gerald_db]

very nice image of the paw, you have some shot noise ? for some reason the horizontal noise is inherent in your image, a typical behaviour from a ccd, i wounder why bias frame isn't taking care of that ...

Thanks, yes there is banding and I did not run the PI canon banding script which I have used before. I also used some previous bias and dark images to see what result I got.