Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  IC 4677  ·  NGC 6543  ·  NGC 6552  ·  PK096+29.1
NGC 6543 - The Cat's Eye Nebula (Bicolor RGB), Frank Breslawski
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NGC 6543 - The Cat's Eye Nebula (Bicolor RGB)

NGC 6543 - The Cat's Eye Nebula (Bicolor RGB), Frank Breslawski
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NGC 6543 - The Cat's Eye Nebula (Bicolor RGB)

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It is very interesting that the professional data actually only show the bright core of this great planetary nebula. NGC 6543 is also known as Caldwell 6.

This image was quite difficult to process, because the bright core area overshines everything. Therefore I took some short exposed images of the center with my cooled color camera, processed the data separately and tried to bring them together with the outer foothills of the PN as harmoniously as possible.

The RGB data show that the PN dominates in the green light, so I used these natural colors for the presentation.

Hope you like it :-)

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