Patrick Holland patrick@pcalliance.biz 7/5/2010 10:10:56 PM This is my latest image from Scorpius, and my last stop on the Scorpius tour this season (on the Sagitarious and the Milky Way). This is NGC6357, AKA the "crab". The crab is less than 2 degrees away from the Cat's Paw Nebula and is no less spectacular. I actually burned out a bit of the core with this image. It was 18-15 degrees high in the southern sky when imaged on 7-5-10 (12:30 AM). This was imaged with the 14" Meade LX200GPS w/hyperstar (F2, 700mm FL). It consists of 28-40 second subs, 20 dark frames, 20 flat frames and 20 dark/flats. Image acquisition and pre-processing in Maxim DL Eassentials and post-processing was in Photoshop CS4.
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