The Cat's Paw has a paw-city of OIII and SII, making it tricky to produce a Hubble Palette version.
Here we've added 9.5 hrs of SII and 8.5 hrs of OIII to just 2 hrs of H-alpha.
Total exposure is 22 hrs, of which 7 hrs was from 2014 in half hour subs, and 15 hrs from the last two nights, all in 1 hr subs.
The OIII was added under somewhat non-ideal conditions with a half moon shining right down the barrel and trying to climb inside the scope. Thus the very faintest blue-black washes are to be ignored, but the middling and brightest blues and localized blue detail should be solid. The little patch of inky blue at the left hand edge toward 10 o'clock should be real, and seems unrelated to the main paw.
A very busy image, with at least 5 discrete and idiosyncratic regions. We can see that the cat has been walking around the kitchen as well as the fish pond. Dead centre is the "thorn" in the cat's paw, or perhaps a shark's fin. Toward 5 o'clock is a roast chicken with burned crispy skin and an alarming blueberry sauce. Toward 12 o'clock is something like a giant electric eel with a black eye and huge sharp teeth, trying to bite the tasty morsel toward 9 or 10 o'clock from centre. All these regions have very different textures, implying different dynamic causes.
A detailed Paw guys See?.. Col has become a Doconimator as well...and good to see I say! I think excessive decon has been largely tamed across the IIS imaging community ...we hardly ever see it now
...we must stay vigilant however, because the veracious and insidious tentacles that over deconisation can be, will so easily infiltrate once again under stealth if we let our guard down
Man, the detail is awesome. That is what a 20" can really do is show detail that a 12" can't. I like the almost mollusc shell look of the lower nebulosity. I like the misty looking nebulosity too.
The detail and resolution is exquisite MnT!! Decon has been taken to the brink but hasn’t stepped over the edge
Exceptional image MnT, a real benchmark
Thanks Colin. You get the best view from the edge!
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Originally Posted by multiweb
Superb close up Mike. The spongy bit looks great.
Thanks Marc. Definitely roast chicken.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
A detailed Paw guys See?.. Col has become a Doconimator as well...and good to see I say! I think excessive decon has been largely tamed across the IIS imaging community ...we hardly ever see it now
...we must stay vigilant however, because the veracious and insidious tentacles that over deconisation can be, will so easily infiltrate once again under stealth if we let our guard down
Mike
Thanks, Mike. Vigilance it is.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Very high impact.
The spongy section looks like a sphere - skull like.
Greg.
The Skull of Scorpius. Perhaps on the edge of too high impact, but we liked the whispy thready bits we've brought out here and there.
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Originally Posted by Karlzburg
That's an amazing picture, i appreciate the time you took to share it 👍🏼
Cheers, Karl.
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Man, the detail is awesome. That is what a 20" can really do is show detail that a 12" can't. I like the almost mollusc shell look of the lower nebulosity. I like the misty looking nebulosity too.
Thanks muchly Paul. Yes, Mother-of-Pearl here and there.
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Originally Posted by traveller
Outstanding!!!
Cheers, Bo!
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Originally Posted by atalas
mamma mia!
Thanks Louie
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Originally Posted by Ryderscope
A Claud Monet rendition of the cat’s paw. Purrfect
Thank you Rodney!
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Originally Posted by SimmoW
Wow, so detailed, well done! I love the almost 3d section at top-right. Reminds me of the veil
Thanks for the encouragement Simmo! The multiple discrete textures are fascinating. Presumably there are only a handful of underlying processes going on - gravitational collapse, star formation, radiation pressure, supernovas and shocks, but slight differences in the environment produce radically different results.
Terrific detail, well composed - havn't seen the O3 & S2 pop like that before on this object - very nicely done.
Not my favourite colour palette aesthetically, but it's your preferred style and I understand the reasoning behind it.
Good to see you guys back on the imaging horse again!
...we hardly ever see it now 
mamma mia!
