(yes, yes, it's better known as the Cat's Paw...)
Finally! After endless months of rain, the sky gods have finally cleared up the cloudy and rainy nights in Brisbane, so I have finally got my kit set up and working properly.
This is a ~ 40 x 30 arc min view of NGC 6334 in H-alpha: my deepest image ever, by quite a large margin
The darkest areas of the image is still a tad noisy, so I'll try to add a few more hours if the weather holds up. Possibly a mosaic of the surrounding areas too.
Full resolution version here
Details: stack of 20 out of 28 frames x 20 min (6.7 of 9.3 hours) with a GSO RC8, SBIG STF-8300M @ 2x2 binning (1.4''/px), Baader 7 nm Ha filter, SX AO guiding @ 10 Hz, on an EQ6.
PS following Mike's tradition of finding animals in nebulae, I see an oceanarium: a sunfish, seahorse, moray eel, shark's fin, and a crayfish!
