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The Cats Paw Nebula, NGC 6334 Located near the sting of the Scorpion's tail, this object is well-named, as it does resemble the paw of a celestial cat that left its mark on the sky after dipping a paw in a tin of luminous red paint. It is a complex of emission nebulae and dark dust clouds amidst a field strewn with stars. Distance ~ 5500 ly. The dark nebula is B257.
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| Camera: | SBIG STL11000M, Astrodon filters | Scope: | Takahashi TOA-130, f=1000mm, f7.7+flattner (fov ~1.2° x 1.0°) |
| Mount: | Takahashi EM-200 Temma2 | Guiding: | external, E-finder |
| Filters/Exposures: | L:R:G:B = 60:30:30:30min (bin1x1) ≡ 2h30m | Location: | ASV's Leon Mow Dark Sky Site, Heathcote, Victoria, Australia |
| Dates: | August 2014 | Processing: | CCDStack2, RegiStar and Photoshop CS5 |