The Cat's Eye Nebula
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This is one of the most challenging targets I've ever worked on and there is still a LOT of room for improvement. After the first two nights of 5-minute exposures I went another night with 10-minute exposures. What you see is 13 hours of total exposure and I had to suppress the core when stretching to maintain the details of the eye. This is NGC6543, the Cat's Eye Nebula.
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Image details
| Telescope: | Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 | |
| Length: | 2350mm | |
| Aperture: | 235mm | |
| F-stop: | f/10.0 | |
| Sessions: | 1 | |
| Captured: | 2023-07-22 to 2023-07-22 | |
| Lights: | 130 | |
| Exposure: | 450 | |
| Total exposure: | 16 h | |
| Ra: | 17h 58m 34.5s | |
| Dec: | +66° 38' 0.248 | |
| Size: | 14.006 x 13.339 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 0.161 deg | |
| Scale: | 0.2 arcsec/pixel |