NGC6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula ** Now Including Revision-2 and Revision-3 ** (Fernando)

NGC6334: The Cat's Paw Nebula Now Including Revision-2 and Revision-3

I always heard about the dust and the complex network of dark nebulae present in NGC6334, but have always seen images whose processing privileges its strong emission character.

Then, I decided to image this nebula and use a kind of processing intended for not disturb the little structures and in fact they are there in all its beauty, as you can see in the image, although I have used a parsimonious amount of Ha during the processing

This nebula is amazing and you can have more about it here: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2013-15

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Note about Revision 2: Some friends thought that the original processing ended up putting two dark colors one over each other, I argumented that was the image obtained from the most purist processing I could do. But in the end I agreed with them and used a new processing to get a more common image of the NGC 6334 while tried not to lose the good visibility of the dark nebulae structures.

They are side by side, anyway.

Note about Revision 3: A new multi scale sharpening has been introduced aiming improve the fine and medium structures of the image, in order to stand out some more delicate emission structures.

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Thanks for looking.

Fernando

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