Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  IC 1934  ·  IC 4677  ·  NGC 6543  ·  NGC 6552  ·  PK096+29.1
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Cat's Eye Nebula [NGC 6543], Mike Hamende
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Cat's Eye Nebula [NGC 6543]

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Cat's Eye Nebula [NGC 6543], Mike Hamende
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Cat's Eye Nebula [NGC 6543]

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I was looking for a narrowband target to take advantage of some clear skies during the full moon,  I was fortunate that this one stayed above 30 degrees all night long and was well separated from the moon. I learned a few lessons from capturing and processing this target.  The short of it is: Don't take 30s exposures with 3nm filters.


I've still got some tweaking to do with this scope, it is not quite as sharp as I would like but I was happy to see some of the concentric rings in the center start to peek through.

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Description: I was able to recover a little bit more detail in the eye bye incorporating RGB data.

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Cat's Eye Nebula [NGC 6543], Mike Hamende