The Cat's Paw

[DiscoDuck]

NGC 6334 in SHO. Taken in suburban Adelaide over 4 nights between clouds, dew, frost and some rather scary bats that have taken to roosting in the nearby trees!

About 5 hours in each channel. Taken with a ZWO 294MM Pro on a GSO RC8 and an AP Mach1.

I always love the starfleet logo in the middle of the paw :)

Full details and higher res on Astrobin here (https://www.astrobin.com/hjtzst/).

[Dave882]

Super shot! Glad to see you overcame Mother Nature to bring this beautiful view - gotta watch out for bat droppings tho it’s really bad news!
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to unsee the logo in the middle now lol

[Nikolas]

Really stands out I like it

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Dave. Yeah. Some bat droppings a few metres from the scope!! :eek:



Thanks Nikolas.

[Benjamin]

Very nice. Lots of cool detail in that yellow/orange/blue palette.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Ben.

[LKD]

Really nice one of the best renditions I have seen.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks so much, Luke.

[Bart]

Nice and smooth, Mr Duck. Good colouring and detail. :thumbsup:

[Dilsh]

wow. really nice. the dust trail behind the main object looks like it is spiralling. Thanks for sharing.

[DiscoDuck]

Thank you, Master Simpson.



Thanks Dilsh.

[multiweb]

:eyepop: Sub zero cool. The highres is very nice to browse around. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Bassnut]

wow that really pops, excellent colour processing and you've smoothed the noise out whilst retaining detail well.

[DiscoDuck]

Thanks Marc :)





Thank you, Fred. Actually, there was very little noise reduction used. The Ha was very low noise - and I used that as a luminance layer after creating a colour SHO image (which was more noisy of course).