Cats Paw

[Alchemy (Clive)]

located in Scorpio, so many targets to choose from, picked this as it was the first target i shot with the qhy8, a year later its still shooting well, the little issue i had the other day seems to have disapeared so i guess i need to make sure the diffraction spikes are not in exactly the same plane as the Bayer array.

the image is cropped for asthetic purposes, 12 inch newt about 3 hrs exposure.

slipping back into the saddle after the extended fire season cut down the imaging.

thanks for looking

clive

[spearo (Frank)]

lovely shot Clive,
focus might be a tad off, colors look great
frank

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice Clive. The filaments in the left pad have come out beautifully sharp and the detail over the whole image is great.

[peter_4059 (Peter)]

Nice image Clive. As Doug says the detail in the left pad is impressive.

Peter

[bluescope]

Very nice Clive ... as everyone has commented the detail in the left pad is great ... it reminds me of the honeycomb look of M1.

[TrevorW]

Nice image like the spread of this nebula

[Alchemy (Clive)]

thanks for looking, frank

hopefully once my new rings turn up i will be able to stop the slight flexure in the system ( sars are somewhat oblate if you look closely)

doug, peter and bluescope, glad you like the detail... if i had a mono camera like some of you do i reckon its worth a nice contrasty Ha on the left paw.

trevor the faint stuff is more than you expect, if i can up my subs it will improve.

clive