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Ngc 6334
The sky was surprisingly clear in the outer North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne last night. Not wanting to set up any serious equipment with work the next day, I used an old Pentax SMC 135mm prime lens ( complete with fungus ) with my modded Canon 550d and took a combination of UVIR and CLS CCD filtered shots on a tripod with a Sightron Nano Tracker.
There's a lot of dust around in this region and I battled with a waxing moon and light pollution to extract as much detail in the Cats Paw as I could in post processing. I managed to reveal the 'Paw' but at the sacrifice of colour balance in the surrounding area.
There was also a fair bit of CA and internal filter reflections from the Clip filters for some reason with this lens. I guess after nearly forty years, it may be time to retire this lens from service!
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