Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  HD164963  ·  IC 4677  ·  NGC 6552
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NGC 6543 (Caldwell 6) Cat's Eye Nebula, Richard Bright
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NGC 6543 (Caldwell 6) Cat's Eye Nebula

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NGC 6543 (Caldwell 6) Cat's Eye Nebula, Richard Bright
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NGC 6543 (Caldwell 6) Cat's Eye Nebula

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NGC 6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula in the constellation Draco.  I wanted to see if it was possible, with my eV-1, to bring out the outer shell of this Planetary Nebula. This is composed of a string of 12 PNG images acquired on 2020-07, 2021-04, 2021-06, 2022-03, 2022-04, 2022-05, and 2022-06. A total exposure of 214 minutes. Some were obtained without a filter, and the rest with the Baader UHC-S, the L-Pro, and the L-eNhance filters. This is still a noisy image and really needs several more hours with a tighter narrowband filter, such as the L-eXtreme (or for those with deep pockets, the Triad Ultra). Processed in Pixinsight then tightly cropped to improve the image scale and hide the field rotation. Bortle-6/7, eV-1.

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NGC 6543 (Caldwell 6) Cat's Eye Nebula, Richard Bright

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