The Cat's Paw

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

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.

[Dave882 (David)]

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 (Nik)]

Really stands out I like it

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by 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

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

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Really stands out I like it

Thanks Nikolas.

[Benjamin (Ben)]

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

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thanks Ben.

[LKD (Luke)]

Really nice one of the best renditions I have seen.

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Thanks so much, Luke.

[Bart]

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

[Dilsh]

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

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by Bart

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

Thank you, Master Simpson.

Originally Posted by Dilsh

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

Thanks Dilsh.

[multiweb (Marc)]

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

[Bassnut (Fred)]

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

[DiscoDuck (Paul)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

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

Thanks Marc

Originally Posted by Bassnut

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

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).