Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  B257  ·  NGC 6334  ·  Sh2-8
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NGC 6334 Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome
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NGC 6334 Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB

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NGC 6334 Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome
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NGC 6334 Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB

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I've always wanted to shoot this target, even though it's very low in the sky and sits right in the worst part of the Bortle 9 light dome of Phoenix from my vantage point.  I finally did, over 4 nights last month.  Despite less than perfect conditions, I managed to capture some good detail using the dual narrowband L-eXtreme filter through my dirty, light polluted skies, and combined it with unfiltered RGB data for natural star colors.  The one saving grace of Phoenix is its lack of clouds this time of year, which enabled me to gather photons on several targets (still to be processed) on almost every night for two weeks straight.  I may not live on a Chilean mountaintop, but I can't complain!

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NGC 6334 Cat's Paw Nebula in Scorpius, in HaOO/RGB, darkdesertdome