Cat's Eye NGC 6543 (Pete Bouras)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 6552

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Cat's Eye NGC 6543

Finally got some decent weather so decided to give this one a shot.
Concentrated on the outer veil.
The super bright core needs very short exposers and an HDR approach, which I did not have time to do in one night. Perhaps I will try it in the future to see what results I can get on the tiny core with my 130mm refractor.

LRGB image using Lum + synthetic Lum from RGB

Lum = 24 x 300s
Red = 13 x 300s
Grn = 13 x 300s
Blue = 13 x 300s

Added 20 sec exposures to capture the super bright core details and blend into the original image.

Red = 20 x 20s
Grn = 20 x 20s
Blue = 20 x 20s

Hope you enjoy.

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Pete

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Title: Cat's Eye uncropped version

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Title: Cat's Eye with core

Description: Took 20 sec x 30 exposures for each RGB to blend in to the super bright core.
The 130mm scope just does not have the focal length and resolution to do better,
but I like how it came out.

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