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Ok I did a reprocess and here are full details
Target: NGC 6334 The Cat's Paw Nebula
Camera: Canon 350d modified, no filter
Exposure Capture: DLSR Focus
Scope: GSO 8” RC
Mount: EQ6 Pro
Exposure Setting: Prime focus, ISO800 ICNR off Daylight WB
Exposures: 11 x 330 second taken 13/07/09
Seeing: Good
Guiding: Orion Starshoot Autoguider using PHD with 80ED Piggy back
Focus: DSLR Focus
Stacking: DSS, no darks, flats applied
Processing: CS3
Info: Diffuse Nebula in Scorpius
Right Ascension 17 : 20.5 (h:m)
Declination -35 : 43 (deg:m)
Distance 5.5(kly)
Visual brightness >6 (mag)
Apparent dimension 40. (arc min)
Discovered by John Herschel on June 7, 1837.
This beautiful nebula resembles a huge paw print in the heavens. It can be located near the tip of the Scorpion' s tail in Scorpius. John Herschel discovered this nebula in 1837 from the Cape of Good Hope, and catalogued it as h 3678 in his 1847 catalogue. It became GC 4288 in his General Catalogue of 1864, and NGC 6334 in J.L.E. Dreyer's NGC. Other designations ESO 392-EN 009 Sharpless 8, RCW 127, Gum 64
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