The Purple Eye Nebula

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Full Moon!!!...?

Well, in to action go the Astronomik new 6nm narrowband emission line filters!

This strangely over looked but beautiful little planetary nebula NGC 6337 is located within the tail of Scorpius and not far from the much more popular target The Bug Nebula.

Perhaps this neglect is because of her small size as the bright central ring is only about 45" in diameter or about the same apparent size as Jupiter, but the fainter outer halo extends it to about 2'

NGC 6337 sits in an extensive faint but rich field of Hydrogen clouds and I have processed them so as they remain soft and cloud like so as not to detract from the little purple eye and the hero of the scene

The Purple Eye Nebula

To get a handle on her small size HERE she is sitting in the vast 38' X 30' hydrogen field

Don Goldman has a beaut write up about it here along with a wonderful shot taken with his 20" CDK at AAO

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

A cute little target, Mike, and an excellent use of full moon time!

[DJT (David)]

That's pretty cool. I really like the way it looks like the line of stars in the middle is going through the cheerio

Nice one, plenty of detail and colour

[Somnium (Aidan)]

Great image mike for such a small target

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Great image there Mike. Certainly compares pretty well with Don Goldman's shot.
Geoff

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Stunning planetary and capture. Really enjoy your little obscure targets. Awesome.

[graham.hobart (Graham stevens)]

That is so cool Mike, I love the wide field shot.
Great stuff as usual.
Graham

[multiweb (Marc)]

+1 Very cool shot. It's a really interesting object. Looks a bit like a watch with a handle.

[gregbradley]

A very striking and unusual object very well imaged.

Greg.

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

Thank you Michael for bringing this cute little DSO to our attention and for making it very presentable

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Wonderful Mike, congrats.

All the best,
Leo

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Nice one Mike, plenty of detail and colour.

Geoff

[Atmos (Colin)]

Very nicely captured for such a small target!
I just did some calculations and came up that target making 36x36 pixels on my imaging setup... Possibly a bit under sampled

So, awesome job

[theodog (Jeff)]

Nice Mike.

Well done.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

I really like this image Mike, a great little PN sitting in a sea of H Alpha. Nicely processed as usual. Thanks for bringing this one to attention.

[LewisM]

Fantastic Mike - something I have never seen before.

[Nicola (Nicola)]

Beautiful detail on this one Mike!

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

Looks great Mike looks like it's looking back at us.

But maybe a little over sharpened

(I jest on the latter point btw )

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Ha, gee thanks heaps everyone so glad you all enjoyed the view

There are so many amazing little PN's out there that tend to just fly under the Lagoon Nebula radar (nothing against the Lagoon Marc it is a lovely Puce coloured nebula)

Over sharpened huh Dunk? hmmmm?...why, I'll give you over sharpened fella

Cheers guys

Mike

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

I like it!