This concludes the collection of souvenirs from my short escape to La Palma to hunt the Tau Herculids in May 2022.
While
Hunting Tau Herculids (TAH) from La Palma indeed shows Tau Herculids (at least two),
Is there a more wondrous hunting ground?,
M83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy , and
Vista into the Virgo Cluster - M98 - M99 - M100 were taken as "by-products" during the preparations for the meteors.
Cat's Paw and Lobster is the deep sky image with the shortest total integration time from this series. Again I'm amazed at how much usable signal ended up on the sensor in just 1.5 hours. Even the tail of the lobster is already visible against the background. Of course, more integration time would have allowed the weak signal in this area to stand out even more clearly. In this image, however, it almost blurs with the background signal, so I didn't manage to get more out of it here without overdoing it with the processing. So I tried to stay calm and respect the data ;)
NGC 6357 (Lobster Nebula) is a diffuse nebula near NGC 6334 in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula contains many proto-stars shielded by dark discs of gas, and young stars wrapped in expanding "cocoons" or expanding gases surrounding these small stars - credit Wikipedia.
NGC 6334, colloquially known as the Cat's Paw Nebula, Bear Claw Nebula, or Gum 64, is an emission nebula and star-forming region located in the constellation Scorpius. The nebula is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, at a distance of approximately 5.500 light years from the Sun - credit Wikipedia.
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