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NGC 6334 in Scorpius
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Diameter: 30 light years.
Distance: 3,300 light years.
Apparent size: 31.0 arc min
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Field of View: 77.4′ x 51.6′
Exposure: 72 min (120 sec x 36)
Image Date: 2021-05-31
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Telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 120
840 mm f/l @ f/7
Imaging camera: ZWO ASI 071
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This is a stack of 35 images taken with the settings shown in EXIF. Images had a dark frame subtracted before being registered, stacked, and processed in PixInsight. I got a move shoot move Nomad rotator and headed up to Mt. Pinos to try getting shots with it. It seems to work really well.
The bright blue-white star at the bottom is Shaula, in the tail of Scorpius. The deep sky objects that stand out are M6 (The Butterfly Cluster - center, toward the top), M7 (Ptolemy's Cluster - left of center, in the denser part of the stars of the Milky Way), The Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357), and the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). Lots of dark molecular clouds obscure portions of the Milky Way in this part of the sky.
Image of the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) which is a massive emission nebula and star-forming region located in the constellation Scorpius.. I created this image from near-infrared (NIRcam) data from the James Web Space Telescope (JWST). The following NIRcam filers were used in this image; F444W RED, F470N Orange, F435M Green, F200W Yellow, F187N Cyan, F090W Blue. Credit NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team. Software I used for data processing- Pixinsight 1.9-3, and Photoshop 26.10.
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Planet Impero
Interplanetary Travel
Why do I feel like I'm in a dream?
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
NGC 6334, colloquially known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, Bear Claw Nebula, or Gum 64, is an emission nebula and star-forming region located in the constellation Scorpius. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837, who observed it from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Canon 60 D Sky Watcher Quattro 250 F4. 16 X 30 SEC EXP.
NGC 6334 - Cat's Paw Nebula + NGC 6357
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello (Oria Amateur Astrophysical Observatory - OAAO)
THE CONSTELLATION OF THE CAT
It is no longer there but it has left its paw
Cats are very popular on social media because there are many enthusiasts. I always have one at home, sometimes even more than one. Among the enthusiasts there were also astronomers of the past and someone had the idea of even creating a constellation.
In 1799, the French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande thought of filling an empty region in the sky, between the young minor constellation of the Pneumatic Machine and the classic Hydra, already listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
It seems that Lalende ironically exclaimed:
"I love cats very much. I will make sure that this image leaves its mark on the celestial maps".
In 1922, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided to bring order, establishing 88 constellations and their boundaries in 1928. All the classical constellations and some that had become commonly used in the meantime passed the revision process. Other asterisms disappeared, including the constellation Cat.
The sentence pronounced by Lalende was prophetic, however, since in 1837, John Herschel discovered the nebula NGC 6334, which, due to its shape, is popularly called the Cat's Paw Nebula.
The feline in the sky is no longer there, but it has left its proverbial paw.
NGC 6334 - Cat's Paw Nebula
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
RA 17 20 50.880 DEC -36 06 54.00
Many say that kittens work a lot on social media. We don't have any but we have a nice footprint ... Maybe it will help to make this page grow in popularity.
NGC 6334 is an emission nebula in Scorpius discovered by John Herschel in 1837 in South Africa. This nebula is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way at 1.34 kpc (5,500 light-years).
In 1837, John Herschel discovered NGC 6334, or perhaps better known by its common name, The Cats Paw Nebula. It’s an emission nebula located in the constellation Scorpius. Its distance to Earth is 5,500 light years.
I wanted to try something a little different with the data set that I have collected over the years on this object. In the RGB colour space, this object can be a little overwhelming with its strong reds. (note: just my personal tastes coming through) The strong reds result from the hydrogen rich areas that completely conceal many hot young stars deep within the nebula. In many cases, these stars are 10 times heavier that our sun and emit massive amounts of ultraviolet light. The surrounding hydrogen gas absorbs this light, which is then re-emitted as a deep red seen in most photos of this object.
It should be noted that this area is one of the most active stellar nurseries of massive stars in our galaxy.
Luminance, Red, Green, and Blue filters where used to create the base of the image. Narrowband channels consisting of Ha, SII, and OIII where added as support data to enhance textures and highlight many areas within this large gas complex.
While the colours may not truly represent the typical RGB colour image, it does highlight many interesting features within. I like the area that looks like a miniature version of the “Running Man Nebula” found near Orion. This can be located just above the area that looks like a shark fin (or Star Fleet Icon), just left from the centre part of the image. It has a slight bluish colour like a reflection nebula. (Zoom in to 100 percent)
Field of View / Plate Solving
Center (RA, Dec):(259.955, -35.874)
Center (RA, hms):17h 19m 49.220s
Center (Dec, dms):-35° 52' 27.816"
Size:52.4 x 34.9 arcmin
Radius:0.525 deg
Pixel scale:0.804 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 314 degrees E of N
Exposure Details:
Lum 75X900
Red 30X450
Green 23X450
Blue 24X450
Ha 19X1800
SII 23X1800
OIII 34X1800
Total time 66.4 hours
Instruments Used:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha, SII, OIII Narrowband-Filters
Software Used
CCDStack (calibration, alignment, data rejection, stacking)
Photoshop CS 6 (Image processing)
Thanks for looking
So, that's finally my last capture before I get my DSLR modified for astrophotography.
Of course, my ideia is to shot an emission nebula hard to capture with a stock camera.
If everything ends right, soon I'll post a version of this same target, with some quite similar exposure, but with an astromoded Canon T6i.
Wish me luck!
Well... what a hard target for a Bortle 6 skies and a stock DSLR. Almost 3 hours of exposure and I hardly got some nebulosity. I hope it will change soon, as soon my camera come back and my Optolong L-Pro arrive.
NGC 6334, also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, is an emission nebula and star-forming region located in the constellation Scorpius. NGC 6334 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in 1837, who observed it from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
This nebula is very low on the horizon for me in Southern Spain so very difficult to gather quality data for most of its transit. The nebula is mainly consisted of hydrogen and Oxygen gas.
This image was taken at Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain using the SkyWatcher Esprit 100ED telescope and ZWO ASO2600MC colour camera with a dual narrow band filter.
A total of 8 hours of imaging over 2 night in May 2024.
Full resolution and imaging details available here: astrob.in/0ckccw/0/
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Cat's Paw Nebula, so named for the large, round features that create the impression of a feline footprint. The nebula is a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy, located in the constellation Scorpius. Estimates of its distance from Earth range from about 4,200 to about 5,500 light-years.
Framed by green clouds, the bright red bubbles are the dominant feature in the image, which was created using data from two of Spitzer's instruments. After gas and dust inside the nebula collapse to form stars, the stars may in turn heat up the pressurized gas surrounding them, causing it to expand into space and create bubbles.
The green areas show places where radiation from hot stars collided with large molecules called "polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons," causing them to fluoresce.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NGC 6334 - Cat's Paw Nebula + NGC 6357
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
THE CONSTELLATION OF THE CAT
It is no longer there but it has left its paw
Cats are very popular on social media because there are many enthusiasts. I always have one at home, sometimes even more than one. Among the enthusiasts there were also astronomers of the past and someone had the idea of even creating a constellation.
In 1799, the French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande thought of filling an empty region in the sky, between the young minor constellation of the Pneumatic Machine and the classic Hydra, already listed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
It seems that Lalende ironically exclaimed:
"I love cats very much. I will make sure that this image leaves its mark on the celestial maps".
In 1922, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided to bring order, establishing 88 constellations and their boundaries in 1928. All the classical constellations and some that had become commonly used in the meantime passed the revision process. Other asterisms disappeared, including the constellation Cat.
The sentence pronounced by Lalende was prophetic, however, since in 1837, John Herschel discovered the nebula NGC 6334, which, due to its shape, is popularly called the Cat's Paw Nebula.
The feline in the sky is no longer there, but it has left its proverbial paw.
Looking rather like a cosmic feline foot protruding outwards from among the stars, NGC 6334 is also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or the Bear Claw Nebula, making it one of many nebulae that look like animals. The Cat's Paw Nebula an emission nebula about 90 lightyears across and is located 5,500 lightyears away, yet still resides within our Milky Way galaxy. It can be seen from Earth in the Scorpius constellation. This is a region of space known as a stellar nursery due to the high rate of stars being born there, including giant stars as massive as up to 10 times the mass of our own Sun.
Another go at some Nebulae last night. NGC 6334 Cats Paw Nebular top and NGC 6357 Lobster (War and Peace )Nebula. Canon 60D with Asahi Takumar 135mm F3.5 manual focus lens. 36 x lights , 32 flats and 17x darks stacked in DSS software and a heap (maybe too much ) processing in photoshop. The lights were 80 secs ISO 800 all on Star Adventurer tracker.
To celebrate the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the telescope to scratch beyond the surface of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), a massive, local star-forming region. This area is of great interest to scientists, having been subject to previous study by NASA/ESA’s Hubble and retired NASA Spitzer Space telescopes, as they seek to understand the multiple steps required for a turbulent molecular cloud to transition to stars.
With its near-infrared capabilities and sharp resolution, the telescope 'clawed' back a portion of a singular 'toe bean,' revealing a subset of mini toe bean-reminiscent structures composed of gas, dust, and young stars.
Webb’s view reveals a chaotic scene still in development: massive young stars are carving away at nearby gas and dust, while their bright starlight is producing a bright nebulous glow represented in blue. This is only a single chapter in the region’s larger story. The disruptive young stars, with their relatively short lifespans and luminosity, will eventually quench the local star formation process.
The Cat’s Paw Nebula is located approximately 4000 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
[Image description: A section of the Cat’s Paw, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Four roughly circular areas are toward the centre of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top centre, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow, with the top centre and bottom left areas the brightest. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame’s edges. Small zones, such as to the left and right of the blue circular area at top centre, appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Toward the centre are small, fiery red clumps scattered amongst the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, mostly toward the top left and bottom right. Toward the top right corner is a bright red-orange oval.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; CC BY 4.0
There's no richer and more colourful area of the sky than this field encompassing the Galactic Center in Sagittarius at left and the constellation of Scorpius seen in full here at centre and at right. The Dark Horse prances at top with dark tendrils of dust r.eaching down to yellow Antares and the colourful emission and reflection nebulas of the Rho Ophuichi area.
Lots of Messier objects popular the field, from M24 (aka the Small Sagittarius Starcloud) flanked by the M23 and M25 clusters at upper left, down past M8 and M20 nebulas, the Lagoon and Trifid, and the pair of star clusters M6 and M7 above the tail of Scorpius. In the tail are the Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334, and the False Comet area with the IC 4628 nebula. The Blue Horsehead, IC 4592, is at upper right off the head of Scorpius.
The Galactic Center is left of center in the dark bay above the M6 star cluster and below the bright Sagittarius Starcloud.
This is a stack of 6 x 2 minute exposures with the Canon RF 28-70mm lens at f/2 on the Canon Ra at ISO 800, on the AP400 mount. Shot on the morning of March 15, 2024 from the Warrumbungles Mountain Motel, near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia.
Looking rather like a cosmic feline foot protruding outwards from among the stars, NGC 6334 is also known as the Cat's Paw Nebula or the Bear Claw Nebula, making it one of many nebulae that look like animals. The Cat's Paw Nebula an emission nebula about 90 lightyears across and is located 5,500 lightyears away, yet still resides within our Milky Way galaxy. It can be seen from Earth in the Scorpius constellation. This is a region of space known as a stellar nursery due to the high rate of stars being born there, including giant stars as massive as up to 10 times the mass of our own Sun.
This spectacular image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334, upper right) and the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357, lower left). These dramatic objects are regions of active star formation where the hot young stars are causing the surrounding hydrogen gas to glow red. The very rich field of view also includes dark clouds of dust. With around two billion pixels this is one of the largest images ever released by ESO.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1705a/
Credit:
ESO
I love this lens sooo much.....
ASI1600MM-C, Samyang 135 f/2.0 wide opened, and the Star Adventurer.
60 x 30 sec Ha, and 10 x 30 sec for L, R, G and B channels. 50 Darks.
Taken from Savannah Skies Observatory using a Canon EOS Ra and 400 mm lens.
LINK
Other images from this series:
1. M8 and M20: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050919231/
2. M16: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050319198/
3. NGC 6188: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51051043096/
4. M78: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050317763/
5. Rho Ophiuchus: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51051288802/
6. Tarantula Nebula: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51051288607/
7. Vela SNR: www.flickr.com/photos/jbrimacombe/51050478748/
Cat's paw nebula (NGC 6334) on the right side and Lobster nebula (NGC 6357) on the left side. Two more beauties of the night sky, taken some days ago.
EXIF: Canon 70D, Tamron 70-200 @ 200 mm, f/3.2, iso 6400, 50'' with iOptron II
Photography and Licensing: doudoulakis.blogspot.com/
My books concerning natural phenomena / Τα βιβλία μου σχετικά με τα φυσικά φαινόμενα: www.facebook.com/TaFisikaFainomena/
equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, Reducer QE 0.73x, and Canan EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 2 times x 30 minutes, 8 x 15 min, 5 x 4 min, and 8 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.6
site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
A mosaic of the region around the centre of the Milky Way in Sagittarius and Scorpius. The field takes in the Milky Way from the Cat's Paw Nebula at bottom edge to the Eagle Nebula at top left. In between from top to bottom are the Swan Nebula (M17), the Small Sagittarius Starcloud (M24), the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulas (M20 and M8) and the open clusters M6 and M7. The prominent dark nebula at right is the large Pipe Nebula (B78) with the small Snake Nebula (B72) above it. The whole complex is visible to the naked eye as the Dark Horse.
This is a mosaic of 6 panels, each a stack of 5 x 3 minute exposures with the 135mm lens at f/2.8, and with the filter-modified Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 1600 tracking the sky on the iOptron SkyTracker, with no guidind. Images were stacked and stitched in Photoshop CC. Taken from the Four Bar Cottages near Portal Arizona, May 4/5, 2014.
This image of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on APEX. The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimetres coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1341a/
Credit:
ArTeMiS team/Ph. André, M. Hennemann, V. Revéret et al./ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
The Cat’s Paw Nebula is revisited in a combination of exposures from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope and expert amateur astronomers Robert Gendler and Ryan M. Hannahoe. The distinctive shape of the nebula is revealed in reddish puffy clouds of glowing gas against a dark sky dotted with stars.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1228a/
Credit:
ESO/R. Gendler & R.M. Hannahoe
equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, Reducer QE 0.73x, and Canan EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 2 times x 30 minutes, 8 x 15 min, 5 x 4 min, and 8 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.6
site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
The centre of the galaxy area of the Milky Way toward Sagittarius and Scorpius, with the Sagittarius Starcloud right of centre, and the Lagoon Nebula (M8) left of centre. The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) in Scorpius is at upper right, the Swan Nebula (M17) and Eagle Nebula (M16) are at lower left. To the right of them is the Small Sagittarius Starcloud (M24). At the very top is the Snake Nebula (B72). The main mass of dark nebula is the Pipe Nebula (B78). Above M24 at left is the open cluster M23 while below the M24 star cloud is the cluster M25. The globular M22 is at the bottom edge. At right of frame are the open clusters M6 (in the dark area of the Milky Way) and M7 (in the bright starcloud).
I took this at about 3 am local time, Monday, March 31 from the Warrumbungles Motel grounds near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia at the OzSky Star Safari 2014. This is a stack of 4 x 4 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Sigma 50mm lens on the Canon 60Da at ISO 800. The camera was tracking the sky using the iOptron SkyTracker.
I've oriented it horizontally as that's the way the camera was oriented to frame the area as it was rising in the east in the sky. However, from northern latitudes, this area would be framed vertically with the right side of the image in Scorpius (the area farthest south in the Milky Way) at bottom.
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the Catspaw Nebula and the Lobster Nebula. This is a really really really big image...
Image source: www.eso.org/public/news/eso1705/
Original caption: NGC 6334 is located about 5500 light-years away from Earth, while NGC 6357 is more remote, at a distance of 8000 light-years. Both are in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion), near the tip of its stinging tail.
The British scientist John Herschel first saw traces of the two objects, on consecutive nights in June 1837, during his three-year expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. At the time, the limited telescopic power available to Herschel, who was observing visually, only allowed him to document the brightest “toepad” of the Cat’s Paw Nebula. It was to be many decades before the true shapes of the nebulae became apparent in photographs — and their popular names coined.
The three toepads visible to modern telescopes, as well as the claw-like regions in the nearby Lobster Nebula, are actually regions of gas — predominantly hydrogen — energised by the light of brilliant newborn stars. With masses around 10 times that of the Sun, these hot stars radiate intense ultraviolet light. When this light encounters hydrogen atoms still lingering in the stellar nursery that produced the stars, the atoms become ionised. Accordingly, the vast, cloud-like objects that glow with this light from hydrogen (and other) atoms are known as emission nebulae.
Thanks to the power of the 256-megapixel OmegaCAM camera, this new Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope (VST) image reveals tendrils of light-obscuring dust rippling throughout the two nebulae. At 49511 x 39136 pixels this is one of the largest images ever released by ESO.
OmegaCAM is a successor to ESO’s celebrated Wide Field Imager (WFI), currently installed at the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope on La Silla. The WFI was used to photograph the Cat’s Paw Nebula in 2010, also in visible light but with a filter that allowed the glow of hydrogen to shine through more clearly (eso1003). Meanwhile, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has taken a deep look into the Lobster Nebula, capturing the many hot, bright stars that influence the object’s colour and shape (eso1226).
Despite the cutting-edge instruments used to observe these phenomena, the dust in these nebulae is so thick that much of their content remains hidden to us. The Cat’s Paw Nebula is one of the most active stellar nurseries in the night sky, nurturing thousands of young, hot stars whose visible light is unable to reach us. However, by observing at infrared wavelengths, telescopes such as ESO’s VISTA can peer through the dust and reveal the star formation activity within.
Viewing nebulae in different wavelengths (colours) of light gives rise to different visual comparisons on the part of human observers. When seen in longer wavelength infrared light, for example, one portion of NGC 6357 resembles a dove, and the other a skull; it has therefore acquired the additional name of the War and Peace Nebula.
More information
ESO is the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organisation in Europe and the world’s most productive ground-based astronomical observatory by far. It is supported by 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, along with the host state of Chile. ESO carries out an ambitious programme focused on the design, construction and operation of powerful ground-based observing facilities enabling astronomers to make important scientific discoveries. ESO also plays a leading role in promoting and organising cooperation in astronomical research. ESO operates three unique world-class observing sites in Chile: La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. At Paranal, ESO operates the Very Large Telescope, the world’s most advanced visible-light astronomical observatory and two survey telescopes. VISTA works in the infrared and is the world’s largest survey telescope and the VLT Survey Telescope is the largest telescope designed to exclusively survey the skies in visible light. ESO is a major partner in ALMA, the largest astronomical project in existence. And on Cerro Armazones, close to Paranal, ESO is building the 39-metre European Extremely Large Telescope, the E-ELT, which will become “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”.
This image, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, shows glowing dust inside the protocluster NGC 6334I. Studying this star-forming cloud in the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) with both ALMA and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii astronomers could see that something dramatic had taken place, completely changing a stellar nursery over a surprisingly short period of time.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1712a/?lang
Credit:
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
All of Scorpius, plus parts of Lupus and Ara regions of the southern Milky Way. This area was directly overhead when I took this at about 4:30 am local time on April 6, 2014 from near Coonabarabran, Australia. The head of Scorpius is at top his tail at bottom though you could turn this image any direction and it would be correct as seen in the sky at this latitude, depending on the time of night. But in portrait mode like this north is at top. Along the Milky Way are numerous nebulas, including the False Comet area, the Cat's Paw area, and the colourful nebulas around Antares at top. The dark Pipe Nebula is at left of frame.
This is a stack of 4 x 6 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Sigma 50mm lens on the filter-modiifed Canon 5D Mark II at ISO 800. An additional exposure with the Kenko Softon filter was layered in to add the star glows.
This image of the star-forming region NGC 6334, also known as the Cat’s Paw Nebula, is one of the first-light images taken by the CONCERTO instrument on the APEX telescope, operated by ESO. The new observations, shown in white and pink tones, have been superimposed to an image of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.
CONCERTO is able to scan the sky at frequencies between infrared and radio waves and has been designed to look at radiation emitted by ionised carbon atoms, one of the most valuable tracers of star formation in the early cosmic ages.
Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
Image captured at Painted Pony Resort, New Mexico.
17 * 180 second lights in Ha
10 * 180 second dark subs
Processed using PixInsight
Orion 80mm refractor with Celestron AVX mount
ZWOASI1600 monochrome camera
Canon EOS Kiss DX mod with EF200mm F2.8L II USM + Astronomik CLS + EOS Low-pass filter -1 @ F4.0 ISO3200 ss80x6 + ss140x1, long-Exp NR ON, 400plus
This image of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on APEX. The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimetres coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.
This image of the star formation region NGC 6334 is one of the first scientific images from the ArTeMiS instrument on APEX. The picture shows the glow detected at a wavelength of 0.35 millimetres coming from dense clouds of interstellar dust grains. The new observations from ArTeMiS show up in orange and have been superimposed on a view of the same region taken in near-infrared light by ESO’s VISTA telescope at Paranal.
NGC 6334 the Cat's Paw Nebula in southern Scorpius at lower right and NGC 6357 nebula at upper left.
This is a stack of 5 x 10 minute exposures with the Borg 77mm astrographic apo refractor at f/4.3 (330mm focal length) and filter-modified Canon 5D Mark II camera at ISO 800. Taken from Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia, March 2014.
Edited Spitzer Space Telescope image of the Cat's Paw Nebula in infrared. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: The Cat's Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope using the MIPS and IRAC instruments, is a star-forming region that lies inside the Milky Way Galaxy. New stars may heat up the surrounding gas, which can expand to form "bubbles."
貓掌星雲&龍蝦星雲
Cat's Paw Nebula&
Lobster Nebula
NGC6334&NGC6357
3幅馬賽克
Date：2019/7/30
Location：
Kunyang, Mount Hehuan , Nantou, Taiwan
Camera：Canon 6D(mod)
Lens/Telescope：
Canon 70-200mm f/4 L IS USM
Mount：Vixen Polarie
Parameter：f/4.0 ISO5000
Exposure time：30sec*35+56+63
Dark,Flat,Bias
Software：DSS+ICP+PS
From Lobster Nebula to Dragons of Ara, these nebulae lie from the center to the south side of the milkyway arm, they are beautiful emission nebulas that I plan to photograph each one individually in the future.
📌Anápolis - Goiás, Brazil. 07-19-22 and 07-20-22
📷Canon 600d Astromod
🔍Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
🔭Fixed Tripod
☄️@novaastrophotos
📋 Exif: 64,7 minutes of total exposure.
19-07
Lights: 419x4" 3200 f4
Darks: 100x4"
Bias: 51x1/4000s
20-07
Lights: 552x4" 3200 f3.2
Darks: 100x4"
Bias: 51x1/4000s
Stacking and Processing done with Pixinsight and Photoshop.
可愛的貓咪
慵懶地伸出肉掌
好似
你露出的微笑
冰釋
我們間的所有誤會
貓掌星雲
NGC6334
龍蝦星雲(戰爭與和平星雲)
NGC6357
說實在的
8月底才來拍這2個目標
有點太晚了...
它們有夠靠南
就在天蠍座的尾巴附近
可是
第三天晚上可是一入夜就放晴
不拍點夏天的東西回去
總覺得有點可惜
所以就拍下去了
不過因為角度很低
常常會被走過的行人干擾
有點討厭就是...
Reprocessing in 2021
Date：2020/8/19
Weather：Clear
Location：Kunyang, Mount Hehuan , Nantou, Taiwan
Camera：Canon 6D(mod)
Lens/Telescope：
William Optics ZenitherStar 81+
Flat 6A III
Mount：Vixen SXD2
Guiding：
William Optics Uniguide+ZWO ASI120MM mini+PHD2
Parameter： ISO3200
Exposure time：3min*37
Dark, Flat, Bias
Software：DSS+PS+Starnet++
From Lobster Nebula to Dragons of Ara, these nebulae lie from the center to the south side of the milkyway arm, they are beautiful emission nebulas that I plan to photograph each one individually in the future.
📌Anápolis - Goiás, Brazil. 07-19-22 and 07-20-22
📷Canon 600d Astromod
🔍Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
🔭Fixed Tripod
☄️@novaastrophotos
📋 Exif: 64,7 minutes of total exposure.
19-07
Lights: 419x4" 3200 f4
Darks: 100x4"
Bias: 51x1/4000s
20-07
Lights: 552x4" 3200 f3.2
Darks: 100x4"
Bias: 51x1/4000s
Stacking and Processing done with Pixinsight and Photoshop.