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Cat's Paw Nebula - NGC 6334, kmcloughlin
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Cat's Paw Nebula - NGC 6334

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Cat's Paw Nebula - NGC 6334, kmcloughlin
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Cat's Paw Nebula - NGC 6334

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I took this image of the Cat's Paw from a dark sky site in eastern Mendocino County, California. It is close to the tail of the Scorpion, so never gets very high above our horizon in northern California; you really need to get far away from city lights and coastal haze to get a good image of it. The post-processing was a variation on lukomatico's SHO-like workflow for dual-narrowband images from OSC cameras; I had to struggle to bring out any OIII signal because this thing is so bright in H-alpha.

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Cat's Paw Nebula - NGC 6334, kmcloughlin

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