NGC 6302 - false colour (Paul Muller)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: Bug Nebula · NGC 6302 · PK349+01.1

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NGC 6302 - false colour

It seems that somehow my carefully crafted write up about what I have re-named the Nudibranch in honour of my false-colour version (aka The Slug) disappeared, lost to the Internet forever!

In summary;
- captured this whilst testing and collimating the CDK 12.5
- used three different cameras - an ASI1600, Apogee 8300 and an ASI6200
- cropped and then cropped again (this thing, well it's actually huge but it looks tiny on account of being so far away)
- processed entirely inside AstroPixelProcessor including playing with some false coloration

The most interesting thing about this object is that no one is entirely sure how it got to be the way it is, it's suspected that there's a ring of material that's causing the material to flow outward in this distinctly polar fashion, but the "waist" of the Bug (Slug?) is so covered in dust that we can't really see into it yet - perhaps JWST will have better luck in the IR.

One of my favourite objects, I aim to revisit it in 2022 now that the system is all up and running.

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RA (center)	17h13m42s.623
RA (top/left)	17h14m11s.722
RA (top/right)	17h13m09s.120
RA (bottom/right)	17h13m13s.486
RA (bottom/left)	17h14m16s.530

Dec (center)	-37°05′59″.44
Dec (top/left)	-36°59′33″.42
Dec (top/right)	-37°00′30″.72
Dec (bottom/right)	-37°12′24″.36
Dec (bottom/left)	-37°11′28″.19

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