Das Paw. The great guilty paw print in the sky; except in this case it's not historical evidence of a favourite family pet making its mark on an unsuspecting steak left to thaw on the counter, its predictive evidence of a future explosion of life in the galaxy.
NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula is located ~ 5,500 light years from Earth in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way (Scorpius). Officially discovered by John Herschel (son of William Herschel), the Great Paw is a beautiful complex of interacting star forming regions.
Narrowband SHO data, now with more RGB stars through an Esprit 120 / 294mm / eq6r setup.
The IIS thumbnail definitely looks whack, and I havent really got my head around IIS images I don't seem to be able to upload any photo bigger than 200kb, and this is the result
Thanks Adam. Thank the esprit and possibly the finest example out of the box of synta's highest volume mount - totally won the QA lottery. Sub .6 avg RMS across this set, with one night that had particularly good seeing around .4 avg.
I don't seem to be able to upload any photo bigger than 200kb, and this is the result 
