NGC 6334 Meow!

[Rod771]

Had a lovely run of clear nights in Sydney last week. I took the opportunity to image the Cats paw.

I'm interested to hear what everyone thinks of the colour. I ran PI's colour calibration but felt the result came up too blue, so I checked the manual cal box and adjusted the RGB sliders myself. Canon 60Da so obviously RGB even though it looks RRR :P

Imaged with the C11 Edge HD with .7x focal reducer (1960mm FL) F7.
Mount - CGEM DX
Canon 60Da @ ISO 800

Integration - 86 x 4 minute subs, 5.7 hours in total.

Calibrated with darks and flats, processed in Pixinsight.

Large click here (http://astrob.in/full/254468/B/?real=&mod=None)

Thanks for Looking

Cheers

Rod

[strongmanmike]

Very nice Rod :thumbsup: it looks RRR because...it is essentially all Red, there is very little other colour in this nebula :)

A run of clear weather huh?...always good :thumbsup:

Mike

[Atmos]

It's turned out quite nice :) Pretty much perfect FOV and framing :)

[Rod771]

Cheers Mike, thanks for the feedback. It's not clear now, just cloudy :rolleyes:



Thanks Colin! Yeah it just squeezed in at this focal length.

[Placidus]

A feeling of great action and drama. Nicely done.

[Rod771]

Thanks M&T!

Certainly a lot happening up there.

[atalas]

Hi Rod

Very nice and a great object!RRR eh,It actually looks like Its had Ha added in as Luminance although I did read your tech card.

Also,I know there only 4 minute subs but I think the star sizes a good considering Its an SCT.

Well done:thumbsup:

[RickS]

Great result, Rod! A lot of dust in that area so the stars don't make a great white reference.

Cheers,
Rick.

[gregbradley]

That's a good image Rod. Nicely done.

Greg.

[Rod771]

Thanks Louie!

I recently changed from 5 min to 4 min subs, only due to histogram position. Certainly helped retain a lot of star colour. I do reduce star size with PI's Morphological transformation tool.



Ahh! Now that makes a lot of sense, Rick! Cheers mate! :thumbsup:



Thanks Greg! :)