Das Paw

[Addos]

Das Paw. The great guilty paw print in the sky; except in this case it's not historical evidence of a favourite family pet making its mark on an unsuspecting steak left to thaw on the counter, its predictive evidence of a future explosion of life in the galaxy.

NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula is located ~ 5,500 light years from Earth in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way (Scorpius). Officially discovered by John Herschel (son of William Herschel), the Great Paw is a beautiful complex of interacting star forming regions.

Narrowband SHO data, now with more RGB stars through an Esprit 120 / 294mm / eq6r setup.

Bout 26h in all.

Higher res version: https://www.astrobin.com/6ltsvo/

[Stephane]

Very good image Adam. You’ve nicely captured some of that faint gas around too. I also love the true colour of this target. Great effort! :thumbsup:

[PKay]

Quite spectacular Adam and very good processing skills.

The thumbnail image for me was a bit wacky (astrobin was fine).

When presenting an image to IIS, I make it about 1Mbyte
and the server usually does a good job of downsizing.

Well done :thumbsup:

[AdamJL]

Your star shapes are really quite excellent, all the way to the corners

[Addos]

Thank you Stephane, Peter and Adam!

The IIS thumbnail definitely looks whack, and I havent really got my head around IIS images :P I don't seem to be able to upload any photo bigger than 200kb, and this is the result :)

Thanks Adam. Thank the esprit and possibly the finest example out of the box of synta's highest volume mount - totally won the QA lottery. Sub .6 avg RMS across this set, with one night that had particularly good seeing around .4 avg.

[Retrograde]

That's a great capture Adam! :thumbsup:

[Craig_]

Very nice. Never imaged this object, probably about time I try it!

[Dave882]

Beautiful image and super sharp too! Great work!!

[YawRate]

Very impressive image! True colour stars make it a lot more immersive. Something to aspire too

[Addos]

Cheers Pete, Craig, David and Guy! I'd def encourage giving this target a go - super strong signal in Ha and Sii and a wonderfully complex nebula.